{"product_id":"the-overstory-1","title":"The Overstory: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers—each summoned in different ways by trees—are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Overstory\u003c\/i\u003e 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, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Overstory\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for all readers who despair of humanity’s self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? \u003ci\u003e\"Listen. There’s something you need to hear.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46163478675633,"sku":"9780393356687","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46163478642865,"sku":"9780393635522","price":47.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_a7c4a7da-1ed8-46c7-8bf5-af796355621f.jpg?v=1763685236","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/the-overstory-1","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}