THE OVERSTORY

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 electroc utes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers tha t trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers?each summoned in different ways by trees?are brough t togeth...[Llegir més]