Recent widower and Catholic deacon J. Kerry Logan spends his nights alone in his church engaged in a drunken one-way dialogue with the wooden jesus who lives on the crucifix on the altar wall. As a 6’11” 70 year-old Irishman, he is only the third oddest creature in The Church of St. Thomas the Doubter once it is invaded by two strange boys. Built of broken fragments of the Christian religion, they claim ownership of the church and declare: “Sondown is near—Night is falling!” As their encounter lasts and a friendship takes root, Deacon Logan feels himself drawn out of his old world and into What Comes After, which is either the deepest betrayal of his faith or a desperate attempt at its renewal. His identity, his church, and even Christianity itself seem to depend on the appalling yet beautiful way these boys transform the 1000 crucifixes they collect from the town down the hill. A book of comedy, fantasy, theology, and joy in the Word, immersed in the tradition of Western classics, Treee is a meditation on the gallows that is the Cross and the humor that springs from our traumatic recognition of the end of this life and our dwindling hope in a second.