The Lion Trees: Part One: Unraveling

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"THE LION TREES" -- WINNER OF THE KINDLE BOOK AWARD! What if survival required you to unlearn who you are? How far would you fall to save yourself? Sometimes happiness is along way down. The Johns family is unraveling. Hollis, a retired Ohio banker, isolates himself in esoteric hobbies and a dangerous flirtation with a colleague's daughter. Susan, his wife of forty years, risks everything for a second chance at who she might have been. David, their eldest, thrashes to stay afloat as his teaching career capsizes in a storm of accusations over a missing student and the legacy of Christopher Columbus. While Tilly, the black sheep, trades her literary promise for an improbable career as a starlet, and then struggles to define herself amidst a humiliating scandal and the judgment of an uncompromising writer. By turns comical, suspenseful and poignant, the Johns family is tumbling toward the discovery that sometimes youhave to let go of your identity to find out who you are. Owen Thomas' rollicking debut novel is the winner of 14 international book awards, including:  the 2015 Amazon Kindle Book Award for Literary Fiction, the 2015 Global eBook Award for New Adult Fiction, a 2015 Eric Hoffer Book Award, the 2015 'Book of The Year' for BooksAndAuthor.com, Finalist for the 2015 First Horizon Book Award, and placements at the London Book Festival, the New York Book Festival, the Amsterdam Book Festival, and the Beverly Hills International Book Awards. Highly addictive, spectacular, and mind blowing... Thomas is a wizard of fiction. -- U.S. Review of Books   A sweeping literary saga in the traditional 'Dr. Zhivago', 'Gone with the Wind', and 'The Thorn Birds', this book has it all... original and stirring... --The Eric Hoffer Book Award  [A] cerebral page turner...a powerful and promising debut.--Kirkus Reviews  Owen Thomas's writing leaves you richer with emotions and contentment even before the ending arrives. If there is only one book that youare going to read this year, make it The Lion Trees. - Motorwriter.com  [FIVE STARS]...I've been an avid reader for well over thirty-five years. I've been a reviewer for over a dozen. I've been bombarded by today's cookie cutter story assembly and I despise it. ... Then, someone like Owen Thomas comes along and reminds me what the book world CAN offer, whata story CAN be. ... [T]his was an astounding read for me. Not only was the story telling mesmerizing, but Owen's writing style is inspiring. His writing is seamless and flawless and makes me yearn for more. -- LiteraryLitter.com  [FIVE STARS]...This is a powerful, gripping and realistic story. Once, a few decades ago, many authors would set out to write "The Great American Novel," hoping to tap into whatever it is which makes the US and its people so unique and hopeful, particularly at a set point in time.... These days it doesn't seem like anyone tries to write those kind of seminal novels anymore... until now. ... The Lion Trees does what so very few great novels can: it will take a lot out of you, but leave you with much more than you had when you began. - Pacific Book Review  [FIVE STARS]...Every now and then, seemingly out of nowhere, a new voice comes along and knocks your socks off. Owen Thomas owns that voice... -- The Anchorage Press AWARDS The Kindle Book Award (Winner)The Global eBook Awards (Winner)The Eric Hoffer Award (Winner - Honorable Mention)BooksandAuthor.com (2015 Book of the Year)First Horizon Award (Finalist)Beverly Hills International Book Awards (Finalist) London Book Festival (Honorable Mention) Southern California Book Festival (Honorable Mention) Great Midwest Book Festival (Honorable Mention) Los Angeles Book Festival (Honorable Mention) Great Southeast Book Festival (Honorable Mention) Pacific Rim Book Festival (Honorable Mention) Hollywood Book Festival (Honorable Mention)Amsterdam Book Festival (Hon. Mention)New York Book Festival (Hon. Mention)