The Tree-Sitter: A Novel

by Suzanne Matson

Overview

A passionate and tensely pitched tale of first love and idealism set in the Oregon forests.

Julie Prince is a top college student, destined for conventional success. But then she falls in love with Neil, a radical graduate student, and abandons her privileged East Coast life to tree-sit in the forests of Oregon. At first it is a romantic field trip; soon, though, Julie finds herself increasingly moved by the magnificence of the endangered forest and, like Neil, invested in its protection. Eventually pulled into a militant act of sabotage, Julie is forced to reassess her deepest held loyalties and beliefs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393329445
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/17/2007
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Suzanne Matson, a 2012 fellow in fiction writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, is the author of four novels and two collections of poetry. She teaches at Boston College and lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Editorial Reviews

"Incisively explores urgent questions about our abuse of nature. . . . Matson makes a vital connection between personal awakenings and the environmental and political realities with which we all must contend."

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"Quietly intense. . . . A timely, thoughtful, morally complex novel."

Suzanne Berne