Description
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut.
A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.
A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another.
An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.
This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.
‘Radical and exciting’ – Jessie Burton
‘Breathtaking’ – Barbara Kingsolver
‘It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it’ – Barack Obama
‘Really, just one of the best novels, period’ – Ann Patchett
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
