What a wonderful book! The story, the writing. Trees. It was a pleasure to read. I’d sometimes stop to savor a particular choice of words, an image, a metaphor, a verb. I often have a hard time keeping track of the characters in novels, but here each person is so clearly drawn, they became very distinct individuals for me. This type of structure, jumping from one story to another seemingly unrelated story, often leaves me bored with some threads, impatient to get back to my favorite characters. In this case, though, I found myself equally interested in each story. Each of the characters is sympathetic in their own way. It’s really a remarkably well constructed work. I’m not usually much of a fiction reader, but I was attracted to this book because it deals with the themes of trees and our relationships with them. I feel like I am still engaging the issues the book raises, somewhere inside me. I expect I’ll have to read it again.