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People from another planet will wonder what’s wrong with earthly names, that it takes so many different ones to tag a thing. But here he lies, alongside this friend he has known only weeks, joined again after so many lifetimes. Nick and Olivia, Watchman and Maidenhair—the complete quartet of them—open to the January night, under topless columns of
... See moreRichard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Across the road from where she’s parked, aspens tumble down the basin toward Fish Lake, where five years earlier a Chinese refugee engineer took his three daughters camping on the way to visiting Yellowstone. The oldest girl, named for a Puccini opera heroine, will soon be wanted by the feds for fifty million dollars of arson. Two thousand miles to
... See moreRichard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
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