The Overstory

From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, we meet a handful of strangers : an artist who inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits of the same American chestnut ; a scientist who discovers that trees are communicating with each other ; an Air Force crew member in the Vietnam War who is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. All these people and more learn how to see things anew and are drawn into saving the planet from catastrophe.
The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world.