What happens when you reach your lowest point and find yourself alone, with only your own thoughts to guide youwhere do you turn, when even those, turn against you?
Born with a deformity in a community as small and isolated in place, as mindAron Walden has always been an outcast. His well-meaning parents attempt to help him fit in, but do far more to shield him from his harsh reality. Yet, lost in his love of literature and woodwork, Aron manages a fragile happiness. But when even that sheltered existence is shattered by their deaths, he's left facing his biggest fearsurviving the unwelcoming world on his own.
Determined to carry on, he goes through the motions of living, clinging to his slipping routine on the family dairy, like a dangling lifeline. Until a powerful dream immerses him in pure love, making him acutely aware that he's a man out of placeout of time. 'It turned out he was right to worry. People need people in the end.' Crumbling beneath his loneliness, he decides to kill himself. But when his perfectly choreographed deathrushing past his shocked neighbors in the turbulent river before plummeting the impressive fallis interrupted by the cries of a young girl, Aron's fate is altered. He throws himself to the mercy of the river, instead, to save her life.
One man's odyssey to find himself and realize his destinyBeneath the Tree takes us on a journey of unbearable pain and deep, enduring lovefilled with breath-taking flashes of self-discovery that reveal the best and worst choices made in desperate moments, the beauty and darkness of life and deathand the profound difference made by how we face each.