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. Theres a riot of life above us, but usually were so focused on whats. One seedling survives and grows massive, even as a blight wipes out most of the country’s other chestnuts. The Overstory: Thats the word ecologists use to describe the canopy of a forest. The first part begins in the mid-1800s, following the Hoel family as Jrgen Hoel brings six chestnuts from New York and plants them at his new home in Iowa. There is a world alongside ours - vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. The Overstory introduces each of its nine main characters with their own section. The Overstory: A Novel Download and Read online, DOWNLOAD EBOOK, PDF EBOOK EPUB,Ebooks download, Read EBook/EPUB/KINDLE,Download Book Format PDF. 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. Self-initiated illustration inspired by one of the story in Richard Powerss novel The Overstory. 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. “The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period.” Ann Patchett

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