Author: richardpowers

New York Times Bestseller A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most “prodigiously talented” (The New York Times Book Review) novelists. An 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 … 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…

“Nothing less than brilliant” (John Updike): When 70-year-old Peter Els and his microbiology lab come to the attention of Homeland Security, he expects the confusion to be cleared up quickly. Instead, national hysteria ensues, forcing Els to embark on the most creative journey of his life.