The River of Dead Trees

When Charles Wilson flees his dead-end life for Trempes, the first thing he finds is the body of his childhood friend, Paul Faber, hanging from a tree in the clearing where they played as boys. Obsessed with uncovering the story behind Faber's death, Wilson learns that truth and time aren't always what they appear to be, and he is soon caught up in a delusory spiral that threatens his very existence. At once a neo-Gothic metaphysical thriller and a meditative fairy tale, The River of Dead Trees charts a dizzying descent into the fragility of faith and of memory.