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What the Trees Remember

“…just magic with characters’ lives so rich I wanted to read on and on. Southern history we have NOT read.”

~ Lee Smith, New York Times best-selling author of Last Girls
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Praise For What the Trees Remember

  • "The book reminds readers that the American South was never monolithic, and that those who keep their hearts open to others may reap the kind of profits that can’t be found in a bank. This story of indomitable women will find fans who love books by Kathleen Grissom and Sue Monk Kidd."

    ~ Kirkus Reviews

  • "This book is just magic with characters so alive on the page, their lives so rich and full, I just want to read on and on. This is major Southern history we have NOT read—a fascinating new history, people, and themes."

    ~ Lee Smith, New York Times bestselling author

  • “Full of wisdom and beauty, this is the kind of deep and propulsive story that sticks with you long after you finished reading it. Cutter tackles the thorny issues of a post Civil-War South with intelligence and generosity. The people and the geography come alive in her capable hands. This story speaks directly to our times and will leave you hopeful that we can in fact build a better world through education and empathy.”

    ~ Katrin Schumann, Washington Post best selling author of The Forgotten Hours

  • "Part mystery, part coming-of-age story, and part meditation on history, survival, and the natural world, What the Trees Remember is a deeply researched and emotionally resonant novel that will especially appeal to readers who enjoy atmospheric historical fiction with strong social commentary."

    ~ NetGalley

  • "The novel's honest relationship with consequence is what distinguishes it from more romanticized historical fiction. ...What lingers after the last page is the mountain itself: its seasons, its flooding creek, its headwaters where Watcher James prays among the moss. Cutter has written a book that understands landscape as memory. The trees in the title aren't a metaphor. They're witnesses."

    ~ Seattle Book Review

  • "What the Trees Remember is a novel of real depth, rooted in a specific American geography that it refuses to flatten."

    ~ Tulsa Book Review

  • "Cutter's commitment to authentic regional voice, to showing consequence without editorializing, and to characters who earn their complexity the honest way keeps the novel on solid ground from first chapter to last. What the Trees Remember is strong, honest, and worth the investment."

    ~ San Diego Book Review

  • "This book is deeply satisfying historical fiction that handles a big canvas with warmth and skill. Hand it to anyone who loved Cold Mountain or The Known World."

    ~ Portland Book Review

Also by Abigail Cutter

The Last of What I Am

“Riveting…. Rich in historic detail and moral complexity.”

~ Geraldine Brooks, New York Times best-selling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March
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About Abigail Cutter

Abigail Cutter started out as an artist/printmaker with a MFA from George Washington University, but during a long stint at the National Endowment for the Humanities, she developed a deep love of American history. She married a man who came with 200 acres and an 18th century farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The farmhouse came with a very active ghost that inspired this book. She currently lives at both the farm and in the small town of Waterford, VA with her husband, a black labrador named Emma, and a cat that bites named Barnibi.

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