Why the tree loves the ax
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jim Lewis.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Women -- Fiction.; Violence -- Fiction.
Description: Caroline Harrison is a young woman drifting across the country from a secret past to an uncertain future. Stranded by accident in a small Texas city, she decides to settle down and stay, only to have her peace destroyed by a moment of inspired fury. From there she's on the run, to New York City to confront her ex-husband, and then upstate, where she lands in a small house in the woods inhabited by three men and an eight-year-old boy - a tiny criminal community. But will they help her or hurt her?

And what exactly are they scheming? This is a story of female violence, fear, and resourcefulness. It is a meditation on identity and memory.