OVERSTORY (VINTAGE EARTH) (PB)

An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits of the same doomed American chestnut. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crew member in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. These people and six others are summoned by the natural world, brought together in a last effort to save it from catastrophe. Vintage Earth is a series of novels that explore our connection to the natural world.