The Ginkgo: An Intellectual and Visionary Coming-of-Age    by John Janovy, Jr
Price: $2.99 USD. 92120 words. Published on July 26, 2011. .
The Ginkgo explores the clash between tradition and creativity. A girl from a western ranch—symbolizing tradition—comes to a large university and writes four highly personal and creative papers about a single tree. In the process, she produces a sobering vision of America a thousand years into the future, the day her chosen tree dies.