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The Overstory

National Book Award winner Richard Powers’ 12th 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-20th-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.

Audiobook available, narrated by Suzanne Toren

The Overstory
by Richard Powers

  • Publication Date: April 2, 2019
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • ISBN-10: 039335668X
  • ISBN-13: 9780393356687