The Overstory
by Richard Powers
Powers's Pulitzer-winning novel of nine people whose lives converge around trees and the fight to save old-growth forests. Long, ambitious and genuinely changes how readers see trees.
Read it if…
you want a novel that shifts your sense of time and what matters.
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Skip it if…
you want a fast plot; it is slow and structural.
Try instead: Bobos in Paradise →
Three things you will actually use
- Trees operate on a different timescale.
- Conviction costs.
- Attention is a moral act.
Do this first
Read the first section, Roots, which stands alone as linked stories.
Our verdict
Changes how you see trees.
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