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The Overstory: A Novel
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Environmental fiction that delves into more than just ecological concerns.
A novel that endeavors to make people deeply care about trees, exploring the interconnected lives of its characters and the world of trees with a compelling narrative that intertwines their fates.
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.