Birnam Wood

I read Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton because it was on Barack Obama's favorite books list. This is a literary mystery novel set in New Zealand. Mira and Shelley are the main two women working with a collective gardening group. This group plants gardens secretly on other people's property. They are driven to do this good work to help their community. Sometimes they plant in parks or private property or public verges. When a landslide cuts off a road in another small town in New Zealand, the group goes to plant there. A billionaire American is on the property and he offers to sponsor them financially. This sounds too good to be true. The ending was a big surprise to me. I enjoyed the story. The book has no chapters. There are three sections. One character in the story, Tony, was loud and verbally aggressive.