The Overstory

This is a fascinating book with agenda: we're fucking up the planet in the name of “progress.” Furthermore, the people who try to do something about it are persecuted (and prosecuted). It's hard to disagree with that, unless you assume, as some do, that destruction of the environment is inevitable and that human invention will give us ways to cope (although the book suggests we're not capable of dealing with the catastrophe we're creating.

Having said that, the book is confusing, with loads of characters that are, at first, hard to distinguish. The first third of the book is made up of separate narratives as each character or set of characters is introduced. Only a third of the way in do they begin to intersect, although even from the beginning the tree theme connects. Lots to think about.