Like many women of her generation, the unnamed Japanese American writer at the center of Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s bold, erotic “The Tree Doctor,” finds herself in midlife, squarely ensconced in the ...

At the beginning of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's latest novel, "The Tree Doctor," the unnamed narrator considers her mother's garden, which has fallen into some disrepair. She is particularly concerned ...

Marie Mutsuki Mockett might no longer live in Carmel, but her thoughts return there regularly. “Even though I love cities and I live in a city, there’s something about me that is probably more attuned ...

If you or a loved one seems to experience an allergic reaction each year when the Christmas tree arrives, you're hardly alone. "Christmas tree syndrome," as it's called, isn't a reaction to the tree ...