Eleanor Catton's novel Birnam Wood follows a New Zealand guerrilla gardening collective led by Mira Bunting as they struggle for financial survival. Desperate for land, Mira targets an isolated rural property left vacant after a major landslide. The group's plans are complicated when an American tech billionaire, Robert Lemoine, buys the same land to pursue a secret, illegal project. When the collective accepts his funding, internal conflicts ignite and set them on a dangerous collision course with corporate greed.
