Tree Author:F. Sionil Jose Tree is a story of a boy growing up in a small Ilokano town, surrounded by friends bedlow his social class, by relatives and doting servants who have served his family all their lives. It is also a story of oppression and compassion. TREE belongs to Francisco Sionil Jose's largest body of work known as the Rosales novels. Like much of hi... more »s fiction, it depicts man's continuing and often futile search for justice and a moral order.« less