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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List
A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine

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The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers Book Review

Name: Ethan Cooper
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A revelation and a tour de force
Date: Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2019
Review: In the excellent THE OVERSTORY, Richard Powers examines nine well-defined characters who become obsessed with trees. While each of these characters is unique, Powers writes each so that he or she pairs with a complementary character. This is a narrative strategy that enables Powers to display his fictional chops, as well as to explore the fickleness of fate. For example:

o Nicholas Hoel is out of the house while a fatal accident destroys generations of his family. He manages to surmount this tragedy, and the survivor’s guilt he certainly feels, by fixating on an enormous chestnut tree, which his great-great grandfather planted on the family farm. Trying to avoid spoilers here; but let me say that Olivia Vandergriff also miraculously escapes death and, thereafter, reconstitutes herself as a tree lover. One of these characters dies and is glorified by a cult of environmentalists. The other survives as a shaman arborist who may have, or possibly hallucinated, the creation of a gigantic sculpture and tribute to trees.

o Adam Apich is a grad student who is writing his thesis on the group dynamics of belief. He is, in particular, interested in why people commit to weird ideologies, which makes Apich a professional skeptic. Nonetheless, he becomes a militant defender of trees who also has a wonderful career… until he doesn’t. In contrast, Patricia Westerford has loved trees and the forest since she was a girl. As an academic, she publishes articles in journals that are about trees and that are lambasted for their revolutionary views. As a result, she spends a lonely decade in an academic, as well as an actual, wilderness, until her views are vindicated.

See how it works? And just for the record, Powers’ other sets of complementary characters are Neelay Metha and Ray Brinkman, both disabled, who cope with their physical problems through the inspiring effects of trees; and Mimi Ma and Douglas Pavlicek, who are opposites in all ways and yet develop a strange friendship and dependency through trees.

I think it’s safe to say that Powers, who, according to Wikipedia, writes fiction that explores “the effects of modern science and technology,” speaks to his readers through the perspective of Patricia Westerford. Here’s a taste (and the page numbers):

131-132: The aspens wave in their undetectable breeze and she begins to see hidden things… Tangled roots spill from the banks of a rivulet. She studies them, the exposed edge of a network of underground conduits conducting water and minerals across dozens of acres, up the rise to other, seemingly separate stems that line the rocky outcrops where water is hard to find… The oldest downed trees are about eighty years. She smiles at the number, so comical, for these fifty thousand baby trees all around her have sprouted from a rhizome mass too old to date even to the nearest hundred millennia. Underground, the eighty-year-old trunks are a hundred thousand, if they’re a day. She wouldn’t be surprised if this great, joined, single clonal creature that looks like a forest has been around for the better part of a million years. That’s why she has stopped: to see one of the oldest, largest living things on earth. All around her spreads one single male whose genetically identical trunks cover more than a hundred acres. The thing is outlandish…

142: The things she catches Doug-firs doing, over the course of these years, fill her with joy. When the lateral roots of two Douglas-firs run into each other underground, they fuse. Through those self-grafted knots, the two trees join their vascular systems together and become one. Networked together underground by countless thousands of miles of living fungal threads, her trees feed and heal each other, keep their young and sick alive, pool their resources and metabolites into community chests....Her trees are even more social than even Patricia suspected. There are no individuals. There aren't even separate species. Everything in the forest is the forest. Competition is not separable from endless flavors of cooperation. Trees fight no more than do the leaves on a single tree.

424: She spins short biographies of her favorite characters: Loner trees, cunning trees, sages and solid citizens, trees that turn impulsive or shy or generous—as many ways of being as there are forest elevations and facings. How fine it would be if we could learn who they are, when they’re at their best. She tries to turn the story on its head. This is not our world with trees in it. It’s a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.

383: To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.

464: I’ve tried not to let hope and vanity blind me. I’ve tried to see this matter from the standpoint of trees.

Highly recommended!

Name: Rebecca
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: overrated
Date: Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2022
Review: This book is overwritten, overwrought, and under-researched. There were some chapters that were so poorly researched -- especially related to cold-weather climates -- that would have failed a middle school creative writing class. For example, Montana is not near the arctic and there is no day of the year where the sun sets at 3 pm. For example, if a fire has gone out, it cannot be "stoked." It must be re-lit. For example, when a fire goes out, the temperature in a small building or tent does not immediately reset to the outside temperature. So many more examples. It's as if the author never spent one night actually in nature, and never bothered to visit the many northern states that feature so prominently in his book. Rather than actually go there, he makes assumptions, which are frequently wrong and always insulting to those of us he could have asked but never bothered.

Then there is the over-writing. Authors who seek Pulitzer Prizes often add esoteric art references to qualify as "literary" whether or not the references are accurate, appropriate, or drive the story forward rather than merely distract, and this author does this worse than most others I have read. Then there is the intentionally abstruse word choice. Time and time again he opts for rarely used terms for (for example) concepts like "finger" and "cliff." In all of my professional and academic writing career, I have learned that the best word choice is never the distracting, barely used choice. And his metaphors and similes are often embarrassing. Examples of this are in my notes which I will post.

All of these problems would be bad for a best seller. But for a Pulitzer Prize winner? Once again I question whether the judges actually read more than the nominated books each year.

Now the ending. Complete gun dropping accompanied by a truly ignorant and ridiculous view of the future. Author clearly holds no values he espouses. This book is shamefully low integrity. I urge environmentalists not to read it unless you want to hate this author.

Readers, there are many fantastic eco-fiction books. I direct you to almost everything written by Nnedi Okorafor, the Oryx and Crake series by Margaret Atwood, the parable of the sower series by Octavia Butler, Becky Chambers's ouvre especially Record of a Spacebounf Few, NK Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy (and many other books and stories - I particularly love Emergency Skin), and much of Ursula LeGuin's books especially the Word for World is Forest. My GoodReads account has even more suggestions for fellow environmentalists questing scenarios where maybe our world manages to survive .. and what may happen next in the likely scenario that it does not.

It's tough to be alive now with eyes open. But please know, we are not alone.