![]() “I knew there was a reason I hadn’t given five stars to any of our books yet, I knew there was something I was holding out for. This is the story, blooming and branching from its pages, of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. There is a world alongside ours-vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. ![]() From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s 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. The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation and lament of the natural world. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” ![]() “The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. ![]()
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