Average Bufph Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Richard Powers
2018-04-03
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List
Named One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by the New York Times Book Review
A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
"The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." —Ann Patchett
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.
Got my hands on 'The Overstory' and reckon it's a breath of fresh air. This ain't your usual read. It's about these trees, y'know, but it's so much more. It talks 'bout how they shape our lives and the world around us. It was mighty different from what I'm used to, but it sure did make me think. It's like a tree that takes root in your mind and keeps growin'. It's not my usual cup of tea, but it's worth the time if you're lookin' for somethin' that'll make you see the world different.
