The Overstory

<p>A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most "prodigiously talented" (The New York Times Book Review) novelists.</p><p>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&#8212;each summoned in different ways by trees&#8212;are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.</p><p>In his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of&#8212;and paean to&#8212;the natural...