The best book I'll read this year, in my opinion. It is about work, love, and having believable characters. After 50 pages, I was unable to put the book down. Can't stop mulling it over," Stephen King Rich Gundersen's family has made a career by chopping enormous redwoods along California's untamed coast for centuries. Although Chub, his son, would love nothing more than to fill his father's shoes, Rich longs for Chub to have a better future. Colleen only wants Chub to have a brother or sister, but she is beginning to lose hope. She and Rich don't discuss a lot of things these days, including her worries that the forest on which their community is based has a serious problem at its core. When Rich is offered the opportunity to buy a plot of timber which borders Damnation Grove, he leaps at the chance - without telling Colleen. Soon the Gundersens find themselves on opposite sides of a battle that threatens to rip their town apart. Can they find a way to emerge from this together?