The Overstory

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The Overstory is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that weaves together the lives of nine strangers, each connected by a powerful natural disaster. This bestselling story reveals how nature and humanity intertwine in unexpected ways.

A gripping tale of nine individuals united by the natural world and a shared mission to prevent environmental collapse.

In this captivating novel, an artist comes into possession of a century’s worth of photographic portraits, all featuring the same doomed American chestnut tree. Meanwhile, a rebellious college student from the late 1980s suffers electrocution, dies, and is mysteriously revived by ethereal beings made of air and light.

Elsewhere, a scientist with hearing and speech impairments uncovers the astonishing truth that trees are communicating with each other. A Vietnam War Air Force crewmember is shot down, only to be saved by landing in a banyan tree.

These are just a few of the nine strangers whose lives are shaped by nature in profound ways. Together, they are drawn into a final effort to protect the environment from looming disaster, their stories intertwining in a powerful narrative about survival and connection.

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