An unnamed girl with a tree tattoo on her back has an incendiary relationship with a much older married man in The Tree Tattoo (Cormorant $21.95) by Victoria's Karen Rivers. Rivers has also released her first young adult novel, Dream Water (Orca 18.95) in which two teens overcome childhood and adolescent traumas.

Tattoo 1-89651-16-3
Dream 1-55143-160-2

[BCBW WINTER 1999]