The Overstory

The global bestseller with millions of copies sold and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

“Radical and thrilling” - Jessie Burton
“Breathtaking” - Barbara Kingsolver
“It changed my view of the Earth and our place in it” - Barack Obama
“Honestly, one of the best novels ever” - Ann Patchett

A wonderful, gripping novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural disaster. An artist inherits a hundred years' worth of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut tree. A party-loving student in the late 1980s electrifies herself, dies, and is sent back to life by beings of air and light. A hearing and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees communicate with one another. A crew member of the Air Force during the Vietnam War is shot from the sky and then saved by falling into a banyan tree.

This is the story of these and five other strangers who are called by the natural world in different ways and come together in a final confrontation to save it from catastrophe.