@ Busboys and Poets 5th & K: Tara Campbell - TreeVolution

Upcoming Event
Sunday, November 13, 2016 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm

In her vividly imagined novel, Campbell, an assistant editor at Barrelhouse and author of the monthly “Text in the City” column for The Washington Independent Review of Books, has come up with a sui generis narrative that is part mystery, part techno-adventure, and part environmental cri de coeur. Tired of waiting for environmentalists to save them, the trees of Campbell’s speculative fiction start to look out for themselves, slapping people who try to climb, carve, or chain a bike to them. At first treated as some kind of urban legend, this odd arboreal behavior seems to be a genetic mutation—but a natural one, or the result of deliberate modification? A young gubernatorial staffer and a Native American trying to protect old growth forest team up to discover what’s going on.

Busboys and Poets 5th & K
1025 5th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Fiction & Poetry
Not Signed or Personalized