EAN: 9781984822017

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A magnificent generational saga that charts a family s rise and fall its secrets and inherited crimes from one of Canada s most acclaimed novelists Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A rugged riveting novel . . . This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers s The Overstory. Publishers Weekly (starred review) There are plenty of visionary moments laced into [Christie s] shape-shifting narrative. . . . Greenwood penetrates to the core of things. The New York Times Book Review It s 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world s last remaining forests. It s 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter sprawled on his back after a workplace fall calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It s 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father s once vast and violent timber empire. It s 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone as usual in his maple-syrup camp squat when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime secrets and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout there are trees: a steady silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie s effortless sentences working as a guiding metaphor for withering weathering and survival. A shining intricate clockwork of a novel Greenwood is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story of the bonds and breaking points of money and love wood and blood and the hopeful impossible task of growing toward the light.

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