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A review by parklandmom
Where Trees Touch the Sky: A Redwood National Park Novel by Karen Barnett
4.25
Completed: Feb. 5/25
Format: Audible audiobook
Narrator: Susan Bennett (always a treat!)
Challenge Prompt: TBBS's "a book with a nature theme"
Book #15 of 2024: This book had a beautiful emphasis on God's gift of nature. I learned a great deal about Redwood trees and the importance of preservation, even though it's something I had already believed in.
This novel is a split-time that goes between the early 1920s and 1972. It flows back and forth easily. Susan Bennett does a fantastic job of narrating each and every character. Barnett has a knack for vivid descriptions and well-defined characters. Marion and Frank are the main characters in the earlier timeline while June and Adam are in the 1972 timeline.
Marion is a staunch defender of preserving the Redwoods and Frank is the son of the lumber company wanting to profit. Things are pretty strained early on but they fall in love. Then a major event puts a whole new spin on everything.
June is a niece of Marion's by marriage. She strives to follow in the footsteps of her late uncle, her Aunt Marion, and her late brother by becoming a park ranger. Her gender and the damage left by polio are a sore issue with her. When she meets Adam, it doesn't go well. He has arrived to possibly take her job over due to questions about her handicap and ability to do the job. Late on the two strike a friendship and work together on a documentary to try and highlight the park, with a focus on her reluctant aunt. Their research uncovers question after question and June begins to wonder if her aunt isn't who she claims to be.
Format: Audible audiobook
Narrator: Susan Bennett (always a treat!)
Challenge Prompt: TBBS's "a book with a nature theme"
Book #15 of 2024: This book had a beautiful emphasis on God's gift of nature. I learned a great deal about Redwood trees and the importance of preservation, even though it's something I had already believed in.
This novel is a split-time that goes between the early 1920s and 1972. It flows back and forth easily. Susan Bennett does a fantastic job of narrating each and every character. Barnett has a knack for vivid descriptions and well-defined characters. Marion and Frank are the main characters in the earlier timeline while June and Adam are in the 1972 timeline.
Marion is a staunch defender of preserving the Redwoods and Frank is the son of the lumber company wanting to profit. Things are pretty strained early on but they fall in love. Then a major event puts a whole new spin on everything.
June is a niece of Marion's by marriage. She strives to follow in the footsteps of her late uncle, her Aunt Marion, and her late brother by becoming a park ranger. Her gender and the damage left by polio are a sore issue with her. When she meets Adam, it doesn't go well. He has arrived to possibly take her job over due to questions about her handicap and ability to do the job. Late on the two strike a friendship and work together on a documentary to try and highlight the park, with a focus on her reluctant aunt. Their research uncovers question after question and June begins to wonder if her aunt isn't who she claims to be.