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Synopsis
Madrone, the second volume in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers trilogy, follows Wild Blue Yonder: A Novel of the 1960s. It’s 1969 and Nate is out of the Air Force and back in California, in the arms of Jane Chandler, the girl he left behind. Pretty, high-spirited, and totally in love with Nate, Jane takes him back to college with her, the University of California at Santa Cruz, one of the hippest campuses in the country. At first, Nate follows what seems like a set path: college, becoming a good citizen. But it doesn’t take long before he sees the system for what it is. And he doesn’t like it. The times are rife with sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, and before long Nate is immersed in all three. Standing at the opposite perspective is Professor Gerald Iron Moccasin, who wants Nate as his student and is willing to stop at nothing to make that happen, and Jane’s father Will, who wants a decent, upright man to marry his daughter. Caught up in all this is Nate, who has only two interests: how much he loves Jane and how badly he wants to be a writer.
Episodes
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![A Poem as Mighty as a Tree.]()
A Poem as Mighty as a Tree.
22/03/2016 Duration: 31minBack from his odd day in the redwood forest, holding a piece of madrone bark with “Christopher and Therese” written on it, Nate settles in with Jane for a literary evening. First he reads one of her poems, then they discuss the story he wrote about Chris and Therese while he was in Germany. Maddie comes back from her dorm meeting, but soon everyone’s in bed and there’s some pillow talk going on between Jane and Nate.
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![The Sound of a Zampona.]()
The Sound of a Zampona.
22/03/2016 Duration: 28minRight off, Nate is not having a good day so he decides to go for a run through the redwood forests in which UC Santa Cruz is nestled. But things get a little strange when he stops and falls asleep inside a redwood fairy circle. How is it that Jane has metamorphosed into the seven redwood tree trunks that surround him? And who is this giant of a man, dressed like a medieval elf, playing a strange reed instrument and singing some kind of ancient poetry?
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![Merrily, Merrily, Life is but a Lie.]()
Merrily, Merrily, Life is but a Lie.
22/03/2016 Duration: 23minNate shares with Jane a major component of his personal philosophy. His truth. But he also tells her how the German student from Heidelberg University said that the truth is that there is no truth. When he tries to enroll at UC Santa Cruz, he discovers UCSC’s truth about what it seeks in a student has nothing to do with the innate truth of the individual. And if the paradox of truth and lies isn’t already totally frustrating, he has to listen to Jane’s dorm mate Maddie tell him how her major course of study is truth, and the lies of truth slowly seep into Nate's consciousness.
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![All We Have Is Truth]()
All We Have Is Truth
21/03/2016 Duration: 37minNate begins to see what it’s like to be part of a family other than his own, and is also beginning to see what it’s like to be close to Jane. He knows she loves him, but does he know what love truly is? These events give Nate great cause for taking a look at – and into – himself.
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![The Family That Eats Together]()
The Family That Eats Together
21/03/2016 Duration: 23minNate joins the Chandler family in Corte Madera for Sunday dinner, where Jane’s mother, Mavis, asks Nate if he plans to attend college and Jane’s father, Will, asks him if he’d like a job at Chandler Lumber Company. Nate’s answers will surprise you.
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![You Make My Heart Sing]()
You Make My Heart Sing
21/03/2016 Duration: 40minNathaniel Hawthorne Flowers and Jane Chandler are reunited in California after Nate’s year and a half in Germany with the U.S. Air Force.
