Arboreality - Paperback

by Rebecca Campbell (Author)

A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a violin for a child prodigy. Campbell's astonishing vision pulls the echoing effects of small acts and intimate moments through this multi-generational and interconnected story of how a West coast community survives the ravages of climate change.

Author Biography

Rebecca Campbell is a Canadian writer of weird stories and climate change fiction. She won the Sunburst Award for short fiction in 2020 for "The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest," the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 2021 for "An Important Failure," and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction in 2023 for Arboreality. NeWest Press published her first novel, The Paradise Engine, in 2013.