The Butterfly Tree

<p><strong>From multi-national award-winning newspaper columnist Woody Woodburn comes a magical heartstring-pulling heart-racing debut novel about family ties that bind us across time.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>The Butterfly Tree: An Extraordinary Saga of Seven Generations</em> is about family ties that bind us across time-and the universal quest to rise to a higher purpose and then lift the next generation upon our shoulders. It is about deep roots and strong branches literally and figuratively and about a single family tree being grafted from three disparate-and multiracial-lineages and made more majestic because of these unions.</p><p><br></p><p>This page-turning tale told in short fast-paced chapters takes readers on a sweeping adventure aboard the Mayflower and the Underground Railroad; under The Big Top of an 1860s American circus and inside a small high school athletic shed secretly inhabited by a homeless teenager in the 1980s; from the battlefields of the Civil War to the jungles of Vietnam; from 1620 to 2020.</p><p><br></p><p>The seven generations in these pages are not all related by bloodline but are bound together by love and friendship-and by a kitchen table that was borne from The Butterfly Tree. Each protagonist overcomes personal adversity before rising to help another and in doing so a single family tree is grafted from three disparate-and multiracial-lineages and made more majestic because of these unions.</p>