The Private Lives of TreesBy: Alejandro Zambra The second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a short and strikingly original (The New Yorker) book about the stories we spin for ourselves and our loved onesnow reissued by Penguin Veronica is late, and Julin is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as a literature professor,