Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell

​I’ve never read the short story that inspired this novelization, so this review has no frame of comparison. Instead, I approached this as an original read and, as such, found it quite good.
I’ve read a book by this press before – a Canadian outfit determined to save the planet one book at a time…which is to say they specialize in climate themed speculative fiction.
The perfectly titled arboreality is about a reality where arboreal and other lifeforms are dying out and the world is resignedly reshaping itself to its new normal.
It’s a tale interwoven of many narratives, many characters, multi-generational. Set in the West Coast of Canada, but geography doesn’t matter all that much because the global extinction this tale tells is…well, global.
People messed with nature. Didn’t care, didn’t think. Maybe elected Supreme Court officials who restricted Environmental Protection Agencies from doing their job. That sort of thing.
The tale is bleak, appropriately enough, but engaging and very lyrical in its narrative style. Almost elegiac. Read quickly. Thanks Netgalley.