The Virgin in the Treehouse

A South African novel that involves distinctive personalities—a woman who lives in a tree house and awaits immaculate conception, a failed artist whose deepest desires are only revealed to her in forgotten dreams, a wise woman who lives in a red car, a tragic domestic worker who only experiences atrocity, and a King whose chest is home to a bird of paradise—this extraordinary story tells of two sisters and their family as they try to understand the landscapes of their lives. With beauty, provocation, and skill, this carefully woven narrative explores the battleground of human relationships and explores the personal and familial consequences of mother-daughter estrangement.