"We are not defending nature, we are nature defending itself."

When 70-year-old Joséphine loses her grandchildren in an accident, she consoles herself by talking to her dead husband and his unpredictable dachshund, Buzuk. She joins young bohemian types in camping out to oppose the building of a golf course in Ste-Anne, Brittany. Together, this ragtag group become spokespeople for a movement advocating for change. This tender, funny first novel breaks with conventional wisdom to explore intergenerational ties.