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Treee: Part One
Night is falling—Sondown is near!
Recent widower and Catholic deacon, J. Kerry Logan is so lonely that he spends his nights alone in his church engaged in a drunken one-way dialogue with the wooden jesus who lives on the crucifix three stories up the altar wall. As a six-foot-eleven seventy-year-old Irishman, he is only the third oddest creature in The Church of St. Thomas the Doubter once it is invaded by two strange boys who seem to have been built of broken fragments of the Christian religion he feels dying in him. They claim ownership of the church and make a declaration: “Sondown is near—Night is falling!”
As their encounter lasts and a friendship takes root, Deacon Logan feels himself drawn further and further out of his old world and into What Comes After, which is either the deepest betrayal of his faith or a desperate attempt at its renewal. His identity as a deacon, his church, and even Christianity itself seem to depend on the appalling yet beautiful way these boys destroy and transform the thousand crucifixes they collect from the small lumber town down the hill.
A book of comedy, fantasy, theology, and joy in the Word, immersed in the tradition of the classics of Western literature, Treee is a meditation on the gallows that is the Cross and the humor that springs from our traumatic recognition of the end of this life and our dwindling hope in a second.
Recent widower and Catholic deacon, J. Kerry Logan is so lonely that he spends his nights alone in his church engaged in a drunken one-way dialogue with the wooden jesus who lives on the crucifix three stories up the altar wall. As a six-foot-eleven seventy-year-old Irishman, he is only the third oddest creature in The Church of St. Thomas the Doubter once it is invaded by two strange boys who seem to have been built of broken fragments of the Christian religion he feels dying in him. They claim ownership of the church and make a declaration: “Sondown is near—Night is falling!”
As their encounter lasts and a friendship takes root, Deacon Logan feels himself drawn further and further out of his old world and into What Comes After, which is either the deepest betrayal of his faith or a desperate attempt at its renewal. His identity as a deacon, his church, and even Christianity itself seem to depend on the appalling yet beautiful way these boys destroy and transform the thousand crucifixes they collect from the small lumber town down the hill.
A book of comedy, fantasy, theology, and joy in the Word, immersed in the tradition of the classics of Western literature, Treee is a meditation on the gallows that is the Cross and the humor that springs from our traumatic recognition of the end of this life and our dwindling hope in a second.
- GenresFantasy
396 pages, Paperback
Published January 24, 2018
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J.P.P. Pofus
1 book7 followersJoseph P. P. Pofus taught literature and writing to young people for decades. He loves the Yahwist, Homer, Vergil, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Dante, the Gawain poet, Julian of Norwich, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Joyce, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Bugs Bunny. He lives with his wife, who is not dead, the two of them surrounded by grandchildren. He prays every night that God will forgive him for everything, including the worst parts of Treee.
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April 11, 2019Dear readers, past or potential:
I will just use this space to invite you to read and perhaps rate or review my novel, Treee.
I'd love to know what you think, especially of the unorthodox elements, like the deacon's doodles, the call-outs, and the golgothitas.
Thank you,
—JP3
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November 7, 2018I started reading the book but it was boring for me so I stopped reading it.
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