Roots of the Olive Tree

<p><strong>An extraordinary new voice in contemporary woman's fiction Courtney Miller Santo makes her magnificent debut with The <em>Roots of the Olive Tree</em> a novel that will delight fans of Sarah Blake's <em>The Postmistress</em> <em>The Secret Life of Bees</em> by Sue Monk Kidd and the works of Kristin Hannah.</strong></p> <p>Five generations of firstborn Keller women live in the same house on an olive grove in secluded northern California. </p><p>Matriarch Anna is 112 and trying to be the oldest woman in the world--and succeeding heartily. Her daughter Bets granddaughter Callie great-granddaughter Deb and great-great granddaughter Erin are also defying longevity norms. When a geneticist comes to study the women at the same time Erin announces she is pregnant with a firstborn boy the Kellers' roots are shaken wide open. </p><p>Told in the third-person perspective of each of the women their story--the secrets and lies that divide them and the love that ultimately ties them together--is revealed in compulsive prose and compassionate drive.<br/></p>