❤️ loved this book because...
I live in the Pacific Northwest and this book captured my heart forever. I had watched Fabulous Fungi and this book had that. What drew me in was the trees were important characters and spoke to those who listened and could hear. I loved the different threads that join eventually, and I loved that Hoel Family chestnut tree and how each successive generation felt about it.
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40 authors picked The Overstory as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of-and paean to-the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours-vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see…
