The novel is about a people behaving in ways that are not easily explainable, both to themselves and to the people around them. And what happens when this woman, young hay, is like, you know what, humanity, i'm done. I'm just not com be a person any more. What if i was a tree? That doesn't really become her explicit goal until the third story,. But u i'm glad we get there. A lady is trying to leave behind human brutality. There's one where she's like, watching a bunch other people eat meat in it, like, youknow, she doesn't like it. One where she is like picturing a time where her