The Overstory deserves every award it has won and several others that have yet to be established. This character-driven epic, in which the characters include our more-than-human ancestors, will open your eyes to the magical place we call home. Far from being pedantic, this ode to trees and thus all life is so thrilling, it is difficult to put down. Like a traditional Chinese landscape painting, The Overstory puts humanity in right relations with the natural world. Or, as Powers writes, "This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived."Publisher description:
Nine remarkable strangers are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.