The Overstory

Vintage Earth - Change the story. Novels to transform our relationship with the natural world.

The Overstory unveils a world where trees are not just part of the landscape. As depicted, "This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived."

The narrative follows a group of strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, brought together to save it from catastrophe.

An artist inherits a collection of a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate gets electrocuted, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. Meanwhile, a hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another.

Spanning through history and across landscapes, this tree-filled novel unfolds our potential to either destroy or restore the natural world.

'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it.' - Barack Obama

THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER and WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

Vintage Earth is a collection of novels that aim to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each title is a piece of creative activism, a breath of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - a planet we must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.