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Spoiler Alert: Another Pulitzer bust.
The opening short stories are great, but the book soon devolves into a boring repetition of its underlying mantra: People who like trees are good and noble souls; all others are shallow and stupid cretins. To hammer this point home, we come to divorced, exam-failing Olivia who has walked by a lovely tree for years and never taken notice of it grandeur and mysteries; and this self-centered trollop trudges home alone in the cold dark winter night, gets high on hashish, blisses out on trance music, falls onto her bed randy for self-pleasure and electrocutes herself as she turns out the light. Got it NOW?
