Previously published as Accidental Exiles by Bruce W. Perry. Tree Of Life is a three-part novel that takes place near the Swiss border with Italy, as well as in Southern France and Africa. A number of memory passages are set in North Texas, as well as in Baghdad and Ramadi, Iraq. Jesse McCallister, a young Texan and Iraq War vet, escapes to Europe where he seeks a new direction and to heal psychic and physical wounds that he suffered...