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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Over one year on the New York Times Bestseller List

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the 21st Century

Named as a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews

Ann Patchett called it “The finest novel ever written about trees, and truly one of the best novels, period.”

Richard Powers’ novel, The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, is a deeply stirring exploration of activism, environmental resistance, and the power of nature itself. Beautifully composed and intricately layered, the novel moves through concentric circles of interweaving stories, stretching from pre-Civil War New York to the Timber Wars in the Pacific Northwest at the end of the 20th century and beyond. Powers introduces readers to an invisible yet rich world, existing parallel to our own—a world that is immense, patient, creative, deeply interconnected, and astonishingly adaptable. This is the deeply engaging narrative of several individuals who come to recognize this unseen existence, becoming intimately caught up in its looming crisis.