Arboreality

The crazy thing about Arboreality is that for all the pane and loss of the climate apocalypse, it is a hopeful novella.

The loss and tragedy are central to the plot, but adaptation and perseverance are the direction it takes.

Together with a great love of wood and trees and a wonderful violin subplot. This tail of changing people in a changing landscape is a very human story about the history and future of forests.

This is engrossing: the author doesn’t flinch about the effects of climate change but people and nature adapt. You don’t have to fix the world to make things better.

Arboreality is a collection of loosely connected stories set on an ecologically devastated near future Vancouver Island. Campbell offers up the full effects of human greed and short-sightedness but also human and natural resilience. A quick read. Recommended.