About the Book: How I Became A Tree
In this remarkable and often unsettling book, Sumana Roy gives us a new vision
of what it means to be human in the natural world. Increasingly disturbed by the
violence, hate, insincerity, greed and selfishness of her kind, the author is
drawn to the idea of becoming a tree. 'I was tired of speed, she writes, 'I
wanted to live to tree time. Besides wanting to emulate the spacious, relaxed
rhythm of trees, she is drawn to their non-violent ways of being, how they tread
lightly upon the earth, their ability to cope with loneliness and pain, the
unselfishness