Marya reviewed At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
Review of 'At the Edge of the Orchard' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This book suffered a little from my recent reading of an even more ebulliently tree-infused book (The Overstory) but it's very engaging. Portrait of a truly awful marriage surviving somehow on the frontier in the first half of the nineteenth century, with the chosen bone of contention being the contents of the apple orchard, and how both the tree-madness and the misery fall to the next generation. It was influenced by Michael Pollan's writing about Johnny Appleseed, and he is a minor character, but he never takes over the novel which is its own thing, just what I like in a historical novel.