Richard Powers's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel weaving together nine Americans whose lives are shaped by trees, making an ecological and moral argument for the intelligence and agency of non-human life.
Translates cutting-edge plant science (Suzanne Simard's mycorrhizal network research) into novelistic form; expands the circle of moral concern to include trees and challenges anthropocentric narrative conventions.
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