The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
BRACHYCHITON RUPESTRIS.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
giants four feet wide, their trunks shooting eighty feet straight up before the first sideways branches bothered to extend.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
rule: What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
myocardial infarction.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
She sees it in one great glimpse of flashing gold: trees and humans, at war over the land and water and atmosphere. And she can hear, louder than the quaking leaves, which side will lose by winning.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Look the color! More shades than there are names, as many shades as there are numbers, and all of them green.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
A seed that lands upside down in the ground will wheel—root and stem—in great U-turns until it rights itself. But a human child can know it’s pointed wrong and still consider the direction well worth a try.