Join us in-person for our next book discussion. We will discuss "The Overstory" by Richard Powers (2018).
The Overstory by Richard Powers is available as a print book, an e-book, an audiobook CD, and as a downloadable audiobook in The Library’s collection. Several print copies will be available at the Lawrence Branch Adult Reference desk.
These four, and five other strangers - each summoned in different ways by trees - are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. There is a world alongside ours - vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. 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. The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity's self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us?
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