Why did Heidi love this book?
While it took me awhile to get into this book with all the varying characters, I loved the epicness of it. The beauty of weaving in so many different and varied characters to come together, sometimes indirectly, into one big mission for the planet and the trees. It explores so many themes and opinions and versions of reality, but underlying it is the web of connection that lies between all humans, of which trees are so representative. This book is an inspiring piece of epic art.
36 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…