We Will All Be Trees

by Josh Massey

We Will All Be Trees provides a hilarious and illuminating insider’s report on tree planting culture, combined with a biotech mystery. Grant is a long-time planter with a cracked past, whose already jaded veteran worldview becomes increasingly unhinged throughout the course of a brutal contract. Grant, along with an odd cast of characters ― including bikers, rappers, hippie rednecks and freeloving Quebecers – must attempt to upend the malevolent plans of Northern Cloners and reset the balance between planter and tree. Employing a dreamy prose style and multiple points of view, Massey brings to life an engagement with nature that acknowledges its terrifying, illogical aspects.

252 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Jm Keeping]

Don't read this book... However, if you've planted in Northern Ontario at some point in your life... maybe read this book?

[Ian Pascoe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book I relate to Shnogg

[Jennifer Shelby · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is equally strange, cryptic, and compelling. The imagery is so vivid that I emerged from the book feeling like I was now a veteran tree planter, despite never having spent a season as such. Though the book jacket would suggest that the novel is a mystery, I would not classify it as such at all. It's more of a strange journey into a very unique and transient culture that culminates into a drug-addled brush with the surreal and science fiction. I've never read anything quite like it.

[Adam Hodgins · Rating 3 out of 5]

A book about tree planting with a sci-fi thing going on. The tree planting parts are really good, not sure how this works as a story though.