Journey Beyond the Great Tree

By Adnan Ashraf

When a south Florida blight threatens to kill the fantastic orange tree that supplies her father's juice company with fruit, Safa Farooq begins climbing the tree, in search of answers. On its high branches, she meets friendly, good creatures and wicked beings as well as a mentor who teaches her to recite the Quran and evade invisible enemies

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zaynab Books LLC
• Release date: Apr 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9780986376153

Adnan Ashraf

Adnan Ashraf was born in Northampton, England and spent most of his childhood in suburban Ohio, where he learned how to type and first began writing fiction. His first typed-up story was "The Adventures of Gatrare Hockachowits and Elvittsburgh Borg." At age 12, he then moved to Karachi for a time before graduating from high school in Florida. He studied fiction writing at Bennington College, and the City University of New York, and much later at the University of East Anglia (London), and then at the Center for Literature and Theatre in Miami. He won the New York University Press prize for hyperfiction with The Straight Path (1999), which juror Stuart Moulthrop described as "a compelling and brilliantly constructed narrative of spiritual awakening." He taught English in Jeddah, Lahore, Fremont, and Amman whilst he learned sacred knowledge from traditional scholars, which he continues to do. His essay "A Vehicle for the Sacred," about the near eastern novels of Pickthall, was published by Brill in 2017. Journey Beyond the Great Tree is his first middle grade novel.

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