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"A literary, emotionally
intense ghost story...."
— USA TODAY
"A haunting, lyrical
story of love, loss, and second chances...."
—Publishers Weekly
“The Language of
Trees, like Whitman's Leaves of Grass though in
a magic realist vernacular, refreshingly asserts that deeply
American conviction: the gravest natural instinct is to heal
and be healed. A shimmeringly heart-felt story.”
–Gregory Maguire, author of the Wicked series
"Rarely do debut novels
cover the complicated emotional terrain of The Language
of Trees. This is no simple right-of-passage story
but rather an eloquently written journey that explores our
strengths and vulnerabilities, our love of those who most
need us, and whom we need most. Ilie Ruby is a shining
new voice, powerful and true, worthy of our closest attention."
–James Brown, author of The Los Angeles Diaries
"The Language of
Trees is a haunting novel about the enduring power
of love. Crafted with suspenseful pacing and delicate
imagery, Ilie Ruby's book combines the qualities of an irresistible
ghost story with a healing tale of redemption. It's
a vivid and compelling read."
–Elizabeth Rosner, author of Blue Nude and The
Speed of Light
“Ilie Ruby's haunting
story seems to spring fully formed from the mystical setting
she so beautifully describes. The Language of Trees
will make you believe that spirits live on, that hands can
heal, and that if you open your heart wide enough, the world
is full of second chances.”
–Diane Chamberlain
 "Eloquent
and compelling, The Language of Trees is a luminous
gem in the hypnotic waters of seduction. Ilie Ruby's prose
has at once a deeply lush and evocative serenity, poetically
imagistic and rhythmically mastered, even as it lures us up
into the lilac scents of restless spirits or down into the
nuanced depths of a child's catatonic paralysis. Ruby is master
of her subject. Her characters are empathetic portraits of
everyone or everything "wounded," a mythic world
of Seneca tribal legend, blind faith, and the sobering mania
of guilt, all intimately woven by the haunt of memory and
mourning-- and finally love. Ruby inspires us to leap every
hurdle of "risk" and "Reach, Reach" into
the open core of our souls for ancestral and personal redemption.
A remarkable debut author, hers is the language of the human
spirit working in conjunction with the healing spirit of the
earth."
–James Ragan, author of Too Long A Solitude
and The Hunger Wall
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