Historical Fiction #12

If Shel Silverstein decided to write a later story of the Giving Tree and placed it in West Germany, you’d get this book. In forty year spans, different people find this tree and are given their true loves or other desires. Timelines converge as the political landscape shifts—from post–World War II, through the fall of the Berlin Wall, to modern times—while the tree plays a pivotal role throughout. Will it help the resistance against the Nazis? Will the tree tear down the Berlin Wall? What about solving a cold case that began right at its roots?