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Author: Carroll Hofeling Morris
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The Japanese art of training bonsai is much like the art of living: both require years of patient effort. and care: The Bonsai, a novel by Carcoll Hofeling Moms, tells the story of one woman' s life-a life trained by self-discipline hardship, and hope. '
Mae Thomlinson was reared in poverty but blessed with a bright sense of humor and an active mind. Her family, neighbors, and friends expected her to accept an ordinary life, but Mae shaped herself just as she trained her miniature trees. She befriended Japanese-Americans during World War II, a neighbor woman who shared her thirst for knowledge, and an unconventional Vietnam veteran. She improved her own life by discovering lives that were unlike her own.
When Mae Thomlinson is diagnosed as having terminal cancer, she undergoes initial chemotherapy treatment. After the first treatment she refuses any more chemotherapy and chooses to live her last months at home. With all the originality, humor, and wisdom that filled her life, she faces this final challenge.
But the story is as much about others as it is about Mae: how her children reconcile them-selves with their mother and with themselves; how her friends both old and young, come to accept change. Most of all, the novel is about learning-learning to live and, finally, learning to die. Both men and women will examine themselves to see the kinds of lives they've created-The Bonsai may help their lives become more beautiful works of art.
Pages: 207
