“It’s very hard to summarize this beautiful and magical story,” the Oscar-winning actress shared in her book selection announcement post on Instagram. “It goes back and forth in time, it’s about world wars, it’s about great love. There’s magic, there’s mystery in it — there’s a tree that has a major part in this book,” she went on.
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Witherspoon’s caption revealed even more about The Island of Missing Trees. “Through gorgeous prose, we unearth tangled stories from past and present—a young woman’s desire to understand her roots, and the story of two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot, whose love was forbidden during a time of conflict and unrest in Cyprus.” The book also packs an emotional punch, as Witherspoon revealed, “I have not cried so hard reading a book.”
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