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The words slap him, and he can think again. She’s right: clenched, he won’t last another three minutes. “Relax. Ride!” He sees her eyes, the crazed green celadon. She sways on the wild bends, limber, as if the storm is nothing. In a few beats more, he sees that it is. Nothing to a redwood. Thousands of these storms have blown through this crown, te
... See moreRichard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
His farewell to a species turning from animal into data.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
This, the most widely distributed tree in North America with close kin on three continents, all at once feels unbearably rare. She
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
This is what people do—solve their own problems in others’ lives.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
What the boy wanted the black box to do was innocent enough: return him to the days of myth and origin, when all the places a person could reach were green and pliant, and life might still be anything at all.