Tyrone's life is changed completely by his marriage to Andrea, a well-known environmental activist. Moving to California, Tyrone takes up the life of an environmental firebrand himself, and is eventually forced to go underground by the law. Flashing forwards to 2025, he is now an old man eking out a living as the manager of a pop-star's private menagerie, holding some of the last surviving animals in this part of the world. And then there's Sierra, Tyrone's … mehrstepdaughter, who spends more than three years sitting several hundred feet up in a Redwood tree... In T.C. Boyle's inimitable fashion, storylines are seamlessly woven together into a provocative vision of the future. weniger