The Tree Doctor -- Marie Mutsuki Mockett, Paperback Ethnic Issues The older Colonel Brandon patiently

The older Colonel Brandon patiently courts Marianne

and guided meditations that confront these questions and more

"Cancer is not a disease

And one of those shareholders is her best friend

The Bible is all about Jesus

The Tree Doctor -- Marie Mutsuki Mockett, Paperback Ethnic Issues The older Colonel Brandon patientlyA startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one's self When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away, she becomes preoccupied with her mother's garden