Tree People

A spinster must come to terms with her not-in-my-backyard attitudes when a homeless family takes up residence in her childhood tree house. Eugenia is happily complacent in her structured life until the day she discovers 5-year old Spooner playing in her tree house. She chases the boy away with dire warnings, but that's not enough to keep Spooner from bringing his homeless family back to the tree house to spend the night. Although Eugenia's wishful suitor, Stan, chides her for her cold heart after she sends the Tree People packing, Stan's own rigid beliefs are tested when his son comes home for spring break with a pregnant girlfriend. As the Blizzard of the Century threatens the region, Eugenia and Stan grapple with their hard-assed, right wing attitudes when they collide at a very personal level with the problems of real people. If a butterfly can flap its wings and start a hurricane, a small boy just might be able to change some lives forever. With "Tree People", the author of "America's Junior Miss" has given her readers another novel that speaks to the human condition and touches the heart.