The Overstory: A Novel Historical Fiction the visitor is eager to

the visitor is eager to complete the gruesome task assigned him and hurry home to his own utopian planet

magnificently inventive

Lessa will rise—upon the back of a great dragon with whom she shares a telepathic bond more intimate than any human connection

and loyal—qualities that he shares with his rider

checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot

The Overstory: A Novel Historical Fiction the visitor is eager toWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post , Time , Oprah Magazine , Newsweek , Chicago Tribune , and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." Ann Patchett The Overstory , winner of the