The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra WBJ So begins Upstream

So begins Upstream

1 Aged pine box which slides open to reveal the Blackwing pencils and a black cork-lined interior

The debut collection from PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and 'propulsive storyteller' (NYT Book Review)

Bold and prescient

big-hearted

The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra WBJ So begins UpstreamThe second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a short and strikingly original (The New Yorker) book about the stories we spin for ourselves and our loved onesnow reissued by Penguin Veronica is late, and Julin is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as a literature professor, developing a novel