National Bestseller Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times A glorious book an assured novel that's gorgeously told - The New York Times Book Review An incredibly moving epic about an unforgettable family - Cbs Sunday Morning (An) absorbing novel. . . I felt both grateful to have known these people and bereft at the prospect of leaving them behind - The Washington Post A stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will go to protect their future. Colleen and Rich Gundersen are raising their young son, Chub, on the rugged California coast. It's 1977, and life in this Pacific Northwest logging town isn't what it used to be. For generations, the community has lived and breathed timber, now that way of life is threatened. Colleen is an amateur midwife. Rich is a tree-topper. It's a dangerous job that requires him to scale trees hundreds of feet tall a job that both his father and grandfather died doing. Colleen and Rich want a better life for their son and they take steps to assure their future. Rich secretly spends their savings on a swath of ancient redwoods.