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An expansion of the 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winning story. Arboreality is a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and the winner of the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. 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.

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"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. Cynthia Farrell is a narrator, musical theater singer, and voice-over actor in English and in Spanish: her mother is part Spanish/Costa Rican. She has enjoyed narrating in the young adult, as well as sci-fi, crime drama, romance, Christian, children's, and nonfiction genres. She feels that her strong definition of character, musicality within the text, diction, and tone stem from from her work as a theater singer. She lives with her daughters in Manhattan."

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