A sweeping tale that ties together wildly different characters through their complicated relationships with trees, and in the process explores humanity’s role in both the destruction and preservation of the natural world, The Overstory by Richard Powers has proven to have longevity past its 2018 publication.
The novel, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2020 William Dean Howells Medal, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018 and has evidently stayed on the minds of the literary community, as it was listed among other heavy hitters on “the best Booker audiobooks to curl up with this winter, chosen by you” on the awards’ website.
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“Nine strangers are each summoned in different ways by the natural world to save it from catastrophe, in a radical and remarkable novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2018,” the listing says about the powerful novel.
The Overstory spans generations and tells the stories of how trees influence the world around them, from a family that photographs a chestnut tree on their farm monthly until tragedy strikes, to environmental activists who seek to save redwoods from deforestation, setting off a chain of events that have far-reaching consequences decades later.
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The Washington Post called it an “ambitious novel” that “soars up through the canopy of American literature and remakes the landscape of environmental fiction,” while over 201,000 ratings on Goodreads gave it an average 4.11 out of 5 stars.
It was also nominated for the Readers’ Favorite Fiction Award in 2018 on the bibliophile social media site and received a Goodreads Choice Award. Reviewers there said it is “undeniably brilliant, but it's also hard work,” with more noting that “It's a book that really rewards a second reading.”
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