Fallen Trees is a volume of beautiful and powerful stories that engage powerful themes of our history and nation through the eyes and voices of a wide range of vivid characters. With a lyrical, sensual, and often gripping style, bringing to life compelling voices whose worlds and experiences are at once both central to mainstream America and outside it. Letting us hear both female and male characters and even engaging the epistolary form at times, it captures an essence of our contemporary society that we need to feel and understand.