*'Probably the best novel I'll read this year. It's about work and love and characters who ring true. By the time I was 50 pages in I couldn't put it down. Can't stop thinking about it' Stephen King*
For generations, Rich Gundersen's family has made a living felling giant redwoods on California's rugged coast. It's treacherous work, and though his son, Chub, wants nothing more than to step into his father's boots, Rich longs for a bigger future for him.
Colleen just wants a brother or sister for Chub, but she's losing hope. There is so much that she and Rich don't talk about these days Â- including her suspicions that there is something very wrong at the heart of the forest on which their community is built.
When Rich is offered the opportunity to buy a plot of timber which borders Damnation Grove, he leaps at the chance - without telling Colleen. Soon the Gundersens find themselves on opposite sides of a battle that threatens to rip their town apart. Can they find a way to emerge from this together?
For readers who loved ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, a novel that plunges us into the heart of a community wrenched apart by a painful secret.
One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021
One of Book Riot's Most Anticipated Releases of 2021
One of Daily Beast's Best Books to Read this Summer
A Harper's Bazaar and LA Times Book of the Summer
[An]
ambitious, assured debut...
a devastating page-turner with a love story at its centre
A strong work of climate fiction... rooted in age-old man-versus-nature storytelling.
An impressively well-turned story about how environmental damage creeps into our bodies, psyches, and economies
Beautiful, timeless and breathtaking
