New Book by Tatjana Soli, author of the Lotus Eaters

Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli.

Greetings.
If you haven't read this book, The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli, about photographers during the Vietnam War, I recommend it highly. Tatjana Soli also has a new book coming out, and if her work in the Lotus Eaters is any indication, it too, will be a great read. I have included a recent newsletter here for you to get an idea of the novel and links to purchase it.
Best, Tim

Hello Everyone,

This is the second newsletter I've sent out  — the last was Dec. 21, 2010 so don't worry about me flooding your inbox. I'd like to give you a quick update on what has happened to The Lotus Eaters. The paperback made the New York Times Bestseller list! A huge thrill. It was also named an American Library Association (ALA) Notable book, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Last August it won the James Tait Black Prize, which is the oldest literary award in the UK. In the past it has been won by heroes of mine such as Graham Greene, and more recently by J M Coetzee, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Franzen, and Cormac McCarthy. It was an unimaginable honor, and I got to go with my mom to the ceremony in Edinburgh. If you'd like to see video of the award from the BBC, plus a segment of me reading in front of Edinburgh castle (it was cold in August!) go here: http://www.tatjanasoli.com/

My second novel, The Forgetting Tree, will be out Sept. 4, 2012. I'm very excited and have included some of the prepub below for you. You can also go to my new website to read more. The two pages that will give you the best feel for the book are the excerpt page, and the Behind the Scenes essay I wrote about what inspired parts of it.

Thank you so much for your support in the past, and please feel free to get in touch with me. Let me know what you think of the new book.

Best,

Tatjana

"This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Soli writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list."

--Jonis Agee, author of The River Wife

"Will captivate readers... with this twisting, intriguing tale of a grieving California woman. Beautiful prose and striking detail."

--Publishers Weekly

"Soli has again created characters readers will love and care about. She does so with deceptively simple grace: Their yearnings breeze right into your life. And while the book is more cerebral than visceral, Claire’s future and Minna’s past are questions that keep the pages turning. The Forgetting Tree is a journey worth taking."

--BookPage

"A lush, haunting novel for readers who appreciate ambiguity, this work should establish Soli as a novelist with depth and broad scope."

--Library Journal

"Like her protagonist Claire who literally tastes the earth to predict the season’s crops, Tatjana Soli delves deep into the soil of two magnetic and powerful female psyches to produce a novel that is lush, evocative, and hypnotic. An incredible book, richly imagined and beautifully written."

--Nancy Zafris, series editor, The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction 

"Tatjana Soli's elegant and sensuous prose will keep you spellbound.  THE FORGETTING TREE is an earthy book, full of beautiful surprises."

--Maria Semple, author of WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE

"The Forgetting Tree is a captivating, dreamlike story about the power of family ties... A lushly poetic, deeply authentic novel that surprises at every turn."

--Kat Bailey, Bookshop Santa Cruz

Synopsis

When Claire Nagy marries Forster Baumsarg, the only son of prominent California citrus ranchers, she knows she's consenting to a life of hard work, long days, and worry-fraught nights. But her love for Forster is so strong, she turns away from her literary education and embraces the life of the ranch, succumbing to its intoxicating rhythms and bounty until her love of the land becomes a part of her. Not even the tragic, senseless death of her son Joshua at kidnappers' hands, her alienation from her two daughters, or the dissolution of her once-devoted marriage can pull her from the ranch she's devoted her life to preserving.

But despite having survived the most terrible of tragedies, Claire is about to face her greatest struggle: An illness that threatens not only to rip her from her land but take her very life. And she's chosen a caregiver, the enigmatic Caribbean-born Minna, who may just be the darkest force of all.

Haunting, tough, triumphant, and profound, The Forgetting Treeexplores the intimate ties we have to one another, the deepest fears we keep to ourselves, and the calling of the land that ties every one of us together.

Tatjana Soli, author of The Lotus Eaters, New York Times Bestseller, and The Forgetting Tree. "Quietly mesmerizing... tough and lyrical."  — Janet Maslin