Family Tree: A Novel
By Susan Wiggs

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a
powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the past
and the promise of the future.Sometimes the greatest dream starts
with the smallest element. A single cell, joining with another. And
then dividing. And just like that, the world changes. Annie Harlow knows
how lucky she is. The producer of a popular television cooking show,
she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they
share. And now, she s pregnant with their first child. But in an
instant, her life is shattered. And when Annie awakes from a yearlong
coma, she discovers that time isn t the only thing she s lost.Grieving
and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback,
Vermont, a maple farm generations old. There, surrounded by her
free-spirited brother, their divorced mother, and four young nieces and
nephews, Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind years ago:
the town where she grew up, the people she knew before, the high-school
boyfriend turned judge. And with the discovery of a cookbook her
grandmother wrote in the distant past, Annie unearths an age-old mystery
that might prove the salvation of the family farm.Family Tree
is the story of one woman s triumph over betrayal, and how she
eventually comes to terms with her past. It is the story of joys
unrealized and opportunities regained. Complex, clear-eyed and
big-hearted, funny, sad, and wise, it is a novel to cherish and to
remember.