THE OVERSTORY

A wondrous exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.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. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky then saved by falling into a banyan.This is the story of these and five other strangers each summoned in different ways by the natural world who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.