p b THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION br / br / Radical and exciting /b Jessie Burton br / b Breathtaking /b Barbara Kingsolver br / b It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it /b Barack Obama br / b Really, just one of the best novels, period /b Ann Patchett br / br / b A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. /b br / br / 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. br / br / 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. /p
