The Overstory
The Overstory by Richard Powers is a literary work published by Penguin Random House on August 29, 2024. This 640-page novel explores the interconnected lives of nine strangers who are united by an unfolding natural catastrophe, presenting a narrative that intertwines themes of nature, the environment, and the supernatural.
Readers will encounter a diverse array of characters, including an artist, a scientist, and a Vietnam War crewmember, each experiencing unique connections to the natural world. The story delves into their individual journeys and how they come together in a collective effort to confront environmental challenges. This edition offers a profound look at the relationship between humanity and nature, inviting reflection on the impact of ecological crises.
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THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
‘Radical and exciting’ Jessie Burton
‘Breathtaking’ Barbara Kingsolver
‘It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it’ Barack Obama
‘Really, just one of the best novels, period’ Ann Patchett
A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.
This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.
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