A powerful and moving story about grief, hate and the capacity for
forgiveness.Irene Stanley thought her world had come to an end when her
teenage son, Shep, is murdered. Daniel Robbin, who had spent his teenage
years in and out of trouble, gave himself up to the police and was given
the state's harshest sentence: death by lethal injection. Now, nineteen
years later, as the state penitentiary prepares to execute Robbin, Irene
Stanley must reveal what she has been hiding from her family. That in order
to survive the anger and grief she had at losing her son, she not only had
forgiven the man who killed him, but had come to be his friend. Her
revelation stuns her family and cracks open the secrets that had been
surrounding her son's death. Secrets that reveal how little she understood
Shep, her husband, or herself. Dramatic, emotional, and ultimately
uplifting, The Crying Tree is an unforgettable story of love and
redemption, the unbreakable bonds of family, and the transformative power
of forgiveness.