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Adelaide Writers’ Week — Trees for Life

“A tree is never just a tree” writes Sophie Cunningham in her stunning essay collection, City of Trees. She marvels at the grandeur and intensity of trees and their forests, and their capacity to tell the story of their surrounds. In Michael Christie’s Greenwood, wealthy tourists flock to an exclusive arboreal resort to experience the great majesty of Earth’s last cache of trees. Both books vividly and profoundly remind us of what we stand to lose if our wholescale destruction of trees continues.

Michael Christie is the author of the novel If I Fall, If I Die, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Kirkus Prize, was selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was on numerous best of 2015 lists. His linked collection of stories, The Beggar's Garden, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and won the Vancouver Book Award. His essays and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Globe and Mail. A former carpenter and homeless shelter worker, he divides his time between Victoria, British Columbia, and Galiano Island, where he lives with his wife and two sons in a timber-frame house that he built himself.

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