The family tree
The family treeSheri S. Tepper

The family tree (1997)

Sheri S. Tepper

Creators: Mixed

THE ONCE FERTILE EARTH OF DORA HENRY'S CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN UNDERVALUED AND OVERDEVELOPED. NOW NATURE, APPARENTLY, HAS DECIDED TO FIGHT BACK.Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists. Meanwhile, strange things are happening everywhere she turns. Weeds are becoming trees; trees are becoming forests. Overnight, a city is being transformed into a wild and verdant place.And, strangest of all, Dora can somehow communicate with the rampaging flora.A potential civilization-ending catastrophe is in the making. The bearer Dora gets to a murderer--and to the truth--the more seemingly disparate events begin to entwine. And the answers she seeks today to the salvation of humankind may lie in afar distant future. . .one which is suddenly much closer than anyone imagines.An exhilarating and enchanting novel that deftly combines fantastic invention with insight and a social conscience, from one of the most lyrical and important voices in contemporary speculative fiction.

ISBN:
9780061976339
Length:
429 pages

Genres: fantasy , science fiction

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Reviews1

Kalanadi
Mixed

this was such an interesting book because i thoroughly enjoyed reading it i mean just on the storytelling level this is probably one of the best tepper novels i've read i just wanted to keep going with it i enjoyed almost all of the characters all of the points of view

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