That’s the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen.
Creating the soil, trading in nutrients. Feeding and curing and sheltering
more kinds of creatures than people know how to count.--Richard Powers, The Overstory
The Overstory by Richard Powers. New York: W.W. Norton, 2018.
Before the reader even opens this luscious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to the first page, they are greeted with a provocative double entendre in its very title. An overstory, str...
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