Loneliness is the key that opens the door to another world

The truth of life that everyone knows but no one speaks of.

The odds of a seed growing into a tree are vanishingly small. It may be an even slimmer chance than one sperm cell out of millions creating life. Yet the protagonist of this book strives toward that near-impossible possibility.

I dream of becoming a tree—a thousand-year-old tree, no less. However, my fate seems inevitable: to be sold off. As my siblings often say, becoming a tree is nothing more than a delusion.

But then a friend, ...