By the Lemon Tree
Publication Date
9-1-2018
Document Type
Book
Abstract
Set in the Central California countryside and the Southern California desert, By the Lemon Tree’s old school stories chronicle the collision of wide-eyed childhood with the end of lives human and animal. In “Twice Good” a downtrodden city administrator shows up for a Black Panther protest forty years too late. “Funeral in Fresno” introduces us to an impatient reverend who is forced to confront his past and his future, while in the title story, a young boy born and raised in East Oakland bears witness to life and death in an ancient rural world.
Department
English and Comparative Literature
Recommended Citation
Keenan Norris. "By the Lemon Tree" Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity (2018).