The Overstory

Then, in a park above a western city after dusk, the air is raining messages. It’s a stunning secret that no one in his family will ever know: there are more lives up here, in his one single maple, than there are people in all of Belleville. A man who has never doubted that life has a meaningful future. IN THE SPRING, the lush, too-warm spring, when the buds and flowers go mad on every dogwood and redbud and pear and weeping cherry in the city, Adam’s case at last runs out of delays and heads to a federal court on the West Coast.