Three friends struggle to survive in a derelict, gang-ruled Boston, while the government seems to be doing everything it can to crush them. A caterer working for the world's elite makes a simple mistake and pays the ultimate price. Sociopathic firefighters dominate a West Coast decimated by forest fires. A girl confronts the immense terrors of her backyard, not knowing how they will shape her future. A troubled veteran sculpts to retain his memories and goes to unbelievable lengths to ensure everyone else will too. See how Scale the Sycamore stitches these stories together with threads of poetry and action, death and survival, to present a ruthless reality that is bearing down upon us with undeniable speed.

J. Gray is an American writer from Massachusetts. His mother was born in Berlin, Germany, where she met his father, an enlisted U.S. Army soldier. In 1987, with a daughter in tow, they left Berlin for Worcester, where Jeremy was born in 1989. Shel Silverstein's "The Missing Piece," R.L. Stein's "Goosebumps," series, and early Stephen King novels introduced Jeremy to the world of storytelling. By six years old he'd wrote, printed, and sold his first story: "Johnny in Space." Hot off the success of selling a whopping six copies, Jeremy had found his passion. At Lesley University, where he earned his English Literature degree, Jeremy discovered Keats, Nabokov, Joyce, Hemingway, Morrison, Milton, and Homer, who all continue to influence his writing today. Themes of memory and transience, the vastness of life, and confronting existential doom have engaged J. Gray throughout his life, and he aims to explore these through nuanced and entertaining prose.