The Overstory (Thorndike Press Large Print Core)

About this book

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 continents few remaining acres of virgin forest.