The Overstory
by Richard Powers
5/5 Stars
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I just loved this book! It gets an extremely rare 5 stars from me.
The Overstory is a bit hard to describe but completely entrancing to read.
It starts as a collection of short stories that appear to be unrelated, each with sort of a "love the trees" theme. It morphs into an inter-related story, where the characters from the first bit begin to intersect with each other.
This book made me look at trees in an entirely new way! It made me feel passionately about them. It helps us to understand how endangered the trees and our entire natural world is, without being overly pedantic. (well, maybe a little pedantic) But it's just lovely to read, full of beautiful prose, and painting gorgeous word pictures. It also helps us to understand people who are walking very different life paths from ourselves. I liked it so much I actually bought a copy for someone else as a gift (RARE for me!) Although I would recommend it for anyone who has a love for nature in their soul, or who wants to understand more about it, it is also just a good story!
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