Why am I here, and what am I supposed to do with my life?
A little seed named Zerah is certain he knows the answer to these questions: become a Great Tree, of course! But when the Wind carries Zerah from the field in which he is about to root himself to a desert, a life unlike the one he had carefully planned begins to unfold, and he is forced to question everything he thought he knew about the world and himself.
Zerah's journey will take him through a Desert and to a City, from a Valley to a Mountaintop, from the depths of the Ocean to the depths of his heart. Many teachers will shape his path, including a very cruel Sidewalk who tries to convince Zerah to give up on life, and an indomitable Twig who tells him that he must carry on.
In the tradition of The Little Prince, comes The Life of Zerah, a spiritual allegory with illustrations "that speak to the child that lives within each grown-up." It is for those who are wondering why bad things happen to good seeds, if the Wind is kind, cruel, indifferent, or nonexistent, and what to do when everything falls apart and it seems like your dreams will never come true.
For ages 12 to 112.