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title: "The Overstory: A Novel"
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# The Overstory: A Novel

**Brand:** richard powers
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A book that will change the way you see the world and the future
  

*by A***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 15, 2023*

This book is a must read for several reasons.  First of all, it’s beautifully written.  Second, it addresses how we live on this planet with other life forms, and how interdependent we are.  Third, it dramatizes how human exploitation of nature will end with us humans losing.  I wish it were science fiction, but read it and you decide.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Because 'Tree' & 'Truth' Share the Same Root
  

*by E***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 25, 2020*

In this Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Overstory, one of the characters offered some profound advice to his students. “You can’t see what you don’t understand. But what you think you already understand, you’ll fail to notice.”Before we bought our current family home, we visited. With most of the furniture moved out and life hidden from view, the rooms were staged for a buyer.All except the young boy with autism, who could not be subdued during our tour of the home for sale. He sat on the couch and jumped up to pace, groans for words, his hands thrown against his stomach in uncomfortable, unpredictable bursts. His mother, long in patience and able to see what most could not, interpreted his enthusiasm for us and for our young children.His mother saw what we could not, knew everything was fine.In her son’s honor and in his name, a young tree had been planted years prior in the backyard of the house that we wanted to buy, because the boy’s parents understood. They saw. They did not fail to notice.Yes, we bought the home and our children played for hours in that backyard. We did not see the boy’s tree, just as we didn’t see the boy.The author of this book has caused me to see that tree, and others, much differently.Other trees including the ones no longer there. The author screams his warning to see their disappearance, page aftrr page.Our children chose instead to live in the wild little forest growing on the edge of our property line, beneath the boy's tree. Here, they buried their childhood.Deceptively dense on a postage stamp of swamp, this little forest was rife with potato vines, knee-high undergrowth and thin trunks that bent in the wind to shake off little white flowers. It sheltered courage within the walls of a young boy’s fort; it sprouted imagination in a backlot to short films on a young girl's handheld camera. Those leaves and vines covered hope and shame and anger and joy and love and peace.Then, just as our children all entered their teens, our little town outgrew itself. Progress sent machines to tear down our forest and build a mandatory retention pond.Every vine, every stump, every little white flower was erased from the yard and forever from the planet, so that our neighbors could use more water and so that the water would have some place to go other than out onto our dirt roads. Against our will, the machines tore away everything but the autistic boy’s tree. Quietly, this had grown tall, with a trunk too wide to hug.Today, that tree is the lone survivor of our backyard forest. This beautiful, magnificent tower of memory tells the stories of my three kids’ childhood.I just finished reading The Overstory by Richard Powers. I read it because I love trees (not just the one in my backyard), and because I want to read good writing. This book offers both.Powers tells the stories of 9 characters whose lives all profoundly intersect with trees. And what do all stories do, one of those characters asks in the book? “[Good stories] kill you a little. They turn you into something you weren’t” (page 412).Is that why I read? To become something I wasn’t? To grow? Or to put it another way, to die just a little? Is it death?The author wants us to think about the environment like we’ve not thought about it before. He doesn’t serve up a green brochure or a scientific journal article disguised as a flimsy four-part play. He introduces us to people and pulls them together in ways that surprise and distress and move and frighten his reader. After all, propaganda about the destruction of trees would not make us think differently. We would just see what we think we see without understanding, without knowing.“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind,” says one of the characters in this book. “The only thing that can do that is a good story.”He got me thinking anyway. Powers ends his novel on the second to last page with a reminder that “the word ‘tree’ and the word ‘truth’ come from the same root” (page 500).Because of his story, I see trees with new eyes. But Powers begs his readers to do more than just listen and nod. He storytells his heart out and, in return, begs me to die a little.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great Writer and Interesting stories
  

*by T***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 26, 2023*

The secret life of trees bear witness as silent participants to the human experience. No wonder this is a Best seller.

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