"The Overstory" is a novel which the root of its theme is trees. The author, Richard Powers, packs into his story many varied, diverse and sundry details, facts and revelations regarding all nature of trees and their existence from history to botany and beyond.
To be clear, this is a novel. It’s a story about people, their passions, their travails, their adversities and triumphs, and their relationships with trees, with each other and, possibly, with one facet of the political divide.
A quote from one of the characters near the end of the book : “What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what was cut down.”
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