Book Club: The Overstory

Selected title: The Overstory by Richard Powers

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. is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. A stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world, The Overstory is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize

Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. He has also won many awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship and a National Book Award for his novel The Echo Maker. Powers has published thirteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University.