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REVIEWS: The Overstory
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NY Times
The Guardian
Goodreads
Book Companion
PULITZER PRICE WINNER 2019. An Air Force
loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved
by falling into a banyan. 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. These four, and five other strangers―each summoned in
different ways by trees―are brought together in a last and
violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of
virgin forest. The Overstory is a book for all readers who
despair of humanity’s self-imposed separation from the rest of
creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating
possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could
speak, what would they tell us? "Listen. There’s something you
need to hear".
Characters: 75. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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Johnny
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Vishnu
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Krishna
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SEEDS |
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Rigveda
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Julian
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