{"id":12810,"date":"2022-03-25T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=12810"},"modified":"2022-03-25T10:09:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:09:27","slug":"the-witness-tree-by-jena-m-steinmetz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=12810","title":{"rendered":"The Witness Tree by Jena M Steinmetz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vividly evocative and steeped in American history\u2026 A stunner.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An archival preservationist finds her own life transforming after she begins to unravel the mystery surrounding an historical finding in Steinmetz\u2019s affecting latest historical tale. When Breanne Walker, a newly appointed archival preservationist in Pennsylvania, is summoned to investigate a 150-year-old witness tree toppled by a summer storm, she doesn\u2019t think much about it. But there are remains of an unknown Confederate soldier and a tattered diary under the tree\u2019s roots, and Breanne\u2019s boss wants her to work on the discovery. Breanne agrees reluctantly and finds her own life transforming. In Steinmetz\u2019s hands, the era of the Civil War, with all its uncertainty, chaos, and brutality comes alive. Both Breanne and Abigail\u2019s loneliness, regret, and guilt are painfully palpable. While the story depicts a brief period of Abigail\u2019s youth, Steinmetz skillfully manages to convey her whole life, telescoping all the painful years. A touching, tightly woven tale that lovers of historical fiction will hate to miss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Witness Tree<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jena M Steinmetz<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date August 11, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 978-1638372745<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $23.99 (USD) Paperback, $5.70 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vividly evocative and steeped in American history\u2026 A stunner. An archival preservationist finds her own life transforming after she begins to unravel the mystery surrounding an historical finding in Steinmetz\u2019s affecting latest historical tale. When Breanne Walker, a newly appointed archival preservationist in Pennsylvania, is summoned to investigate a 150-year-old witness tree toppled by a summer storm, she doesn\u2019t think much about it. But there are remains of an unknown Confederate soldier and a tattered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":12811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[7223,91,3328,178,92732,1136176,1473,1008073,856121,309],"class_list":["post-12810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-author","tag-blogging","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-historical-fiction","tag-indie-books","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/witness-tree.jpg?fit=324%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-3kC","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12813,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions\/12813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}