The Overstory by Richard Powers

The Overstory by Richard PowersAn 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

addressing provocative subjects like birth and death

call to me

an eightmonth-old infant

Becky thought being married to Luke Brandon would be one big Tiffany box of happiness

it can lift us up

including the flu

But what they really want is hers

From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame

Philip Roth's prize-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit

ranging from Rupi Kaur’s iconic photo essay

"—SHARON LECHTER

‘I hope that this book will provide a good framework to a wider class of readers motivating further studies on the subject’ Daya Shankar Kulashrestha