Description: A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist delivers "an astonishing literary achievement" (Anthony Gottlieb, "The Economist")--a naturalist's novel about an Alabama boy who heroically tries to save a sacred forest.
Brief description: Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) was the author of more than thirty books, including Anthill, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Conquest of Nature. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson was a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lived with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Review Quotes: It's slightly mysterious how E. O. Wilson manages to combine so many different talents in one person--from close observation to grand theorizing to deep compassion to well-paced, lively writing. (If he were actually an ant, he'd be the warrior and the drone and the queen and everyone else too.) This novel will remind people of all his gifts and introduce them to some new ones!--Bill McKibben, author of Radio Free Vermont