Fabulous and dense. Remarkable for how this story opens our eyes to an enchanted world of interconnected trees, a vast living, caring entity, with every tree looking after the other. It would be so lovely if humans could do the same. Dense because the narrative is built like a tree, entwined, intricate, with loads of branches, budding in every direction. It is an intense read.
“When the world was ending the first time, Noah took all the animals, two by two, and loaded them aboard his escape craft for evacuation. But it’s a funny thing: he left the plants to die. He failed to take one thing he needed to rebuild life on land, and concentrated on saving the freeloaders. The problem was, Noah and his kind didn’t believe that plants were really alive. No intentions, no vital spark. Just like rocks that happened to get bigger.”