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The Overstory
by Richard Powers
Nine lives. Nine trees. One argument about what we are destroying.
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Nine Americans whose lives are changed by trees — a chestnut that survives a blight and becomes a family's living chronicle, a scientist who discovers trees communicate through underground fungal networks, a woman who falls from a walnut tree and wakes up hearing it speak, a pair of activists who spend months living in a redwood to prevent its logging. Powers structures the novel like a tree: individual roots that converge into a trunk, the trunk into branches. The Pulitzer Prize winner that more than any other novel of the last decade made readers feel the intelligence and the age of the nonhuman world. Not a nature book. A book about what it would mean to actually change the frame — to see trees not as resources or scenery but as the oldest living communities on earth.
