Prairie Lights Books invites you to hear John T. Price, Director of the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Creative Nonfiction Writing Program, as he reads from his newest book, Goethe's Oak: A Holocaust Story.
Written from the perspective of the legendary Goethe’s Oak at the Buchenwald Memorial near Weimar, Germany, John T. Price reimagines and honors the life of an extraordinary tree. Drawing on centuries of human remembrances, from the tree’s namesake, writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, to prisoners at Buchenwald in the 1940s, Price intertwines their stories with recent scientific research into the underground communication networks of trees. Goethe’s Oak offers readers a poignant yet inspiring picture of nature’s ability to comfort (icecubepress.com).
Local author Hope Edelman praises Goethe's Oak as a story with a "compassionate, compelling, and utterly believable narrator...Its story is a meditation on nature, loss, rebirth, and time. Most of all, it’s a treatise on how to be human."
John T. Price is the author of four creative nonfiction books: Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands, Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships, Daddy Long Legs: The Natural Education of a Father, and All Is Leaf: Essays and Transformations. He is the Regents/Foundation Distinguished Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he directs the English Department’s Creative Nonfiction Writing Program, and is a faculty member in the Goldstein Center for Human Rights.