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The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 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 and five other strangers
each summoned in different ways by trees
are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. There is a world alongside ours-vast
slow
interconnected
resourceful
magnificently inventive
and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.