TY  - BOOK
AU  - Catton,Eleanor
TI  - Birnam Wood
SN  - 9780374110338
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Landslides
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Gardening
KW  - Rich people
KW  - Community activists
KW  - Farms
KW  - Ambition
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Novels
N1  - Originally published in 2023 by Granta Books, Great Britain
N2  - "The Booker-winning author of The Luminaries delivers a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive"--; Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike. Natural disaster has created an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. Robert Lemoine, the enigmatic American billionaire, has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker--or so he tells Mira when he catches her on the property. Intrigued by Mira, Birnam Wood, and their entrepreneurial spirit, he suggests they work this land. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other?
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