WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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 that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
Walking among giants
"""This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived. "" I'm so grateful to be welcomed into this world and to walk among these giants. This book reaffirms this love and appreciation. When you start this book, you're reading distinct, unrelated stories. Over time, however, they begin to merge and connect, like the limbs to the trunk of a tree - roots running deep and stretching wide. The characters - including the trees themselves - stay with you long after the last word is read. And, I find myself reminded of these stories, and wonder about others, and all the lives touched by the overstory stretching from branch to branch. A current go-to gift for readers in my life."
