The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction,
is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is
also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From
the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s
twelfth novel 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. 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.