First book I’ve read purely for pleasure in a long while. Enjoyed it a lot - the prose is astonishing and doesn’t dip in quality as it progresses. I’m not sure about the ending, but I loved the whole conceit of the under/over story. Plus I learned a whole load of facts about trees.

I saw an interview with Powers where he said he wanted a story with nonhuman protagonist but told from a human perspective. It achieves this, I feel. But I now want a book with a nonhuman protagonist told explicitly from their perspective, but without simply giving them/it human language…