Beneath the trees, the ordinary things.

For twenty years, Jess Sellers brought her guitar to the bedsides of the dying, the forgotten, and the quietly enduring. What she found there was not sorrow but wonder, stories of trees that spoke, of pines that kept company through long nights, of a boy who called a magnolia by name.
Drawing from two decades of music-making in hospitals and hospices, and from her childhood on a Southern pecan farm where four hundred trees were tended like kin, *Stories from Beneath the Trees* is a luminous contemplative memoir, a companion for anyone who has sensed the sacred moving just beneath the surface of an ordinary afternoon.
A debut for readers of Margaret Renkl, Mary Oliver, and Helen Macdonald.