In this final installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Hemphill once
again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by
exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the forest and
the quiet sentinels that root together everything. Hemphill's prose is
extraordinary in its combination of self awareness yet unselfconscious
honesty and skillful restraint, creating a sense of connection under the
tangle of foliage and limb that ever-reach skyward. Masterfully
illustrated by artist Michael Joyal, his evocative dendrological
drawings contribute to the overall sensory and transcendent experience.