The Overstory

By Richard Powers

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.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 512

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Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize

New York Times Bestseller

A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Amazon Best Book of the Year

National Book Award winner Richard Powers's twelfth novel 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, The Overstory 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.