The "understory" finally lands us on a number of central characters: the researcher shunned for her notion of trees communicating the artist whose family documented a changing tree for decades the college slacker who turns activist following a near-death experience the veteran who finds solace only in the solitude of outdoors the engineer mourning the loss of the only tree visible from her office the psychologist curious about what drives extreme activists and the creator of virtual worlds, felled by a tree as a child and compelled to make a more perfect place to exist. Powers constructs a novel that begins with a series of seemingly disconnected stories, each grounded by a tree, and some of them stretching back more than a century.
This 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner absolutely blew me away.
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