A bug, a boy, and a tree come together in a plan of God’s to save mankind...and everything goes wrong from the start. Green is the comedy of a three-foot-tall bug who escapes from his cave, a six-year-old boy who can’t figure out why animals keep approaching him, and a redwood tree with an odd fan club base — and all the things that should have happened with them...but didn’t!
Jim Ritter was born, raised, and lives in Chicago, Illinois where he graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a degree in history. Along the way he's written thirty short stories (including Vicki LaMaar's Statement About Love, The Mentally Slow Revolution, and Enter the Iron Lung) and five novels: The Austrians, Green, Strike, Teddy Bear Land, and A Bridge Over Lights. In Jim's spare time he either watches TV, reads history books, or hangs out in gyms.
You have to have just the right sense of humor to appreciate this one. It’s like Monty Python, Christopher Moore, and David Ives all rolled into one absurd ball of apocalyptic weirdness. If you don’t appreciate absurdity, then this won’t be for you, but I enjoyed every second of it.