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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Finished: The Overstory (Powers) Pulitzer Prize winner of 2019. A very good book, delving into several characters you get to know very well and their lifelong relationships to trees, and some, to each other. It's more than that, though. I just spent a month reading it because it's definitely not a page-turner, but a read-a-bit-at-a-time-and-absorb-it. So, I'm not going to recap it....but just copy here the description of the book from Amazon. It's pretty succinct and describes the book fairly well. The characters...you'll just have to read and get to know for yourselves. :-)

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.

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