The Overstory — ranked audiobook

Ranked for listeners who want the whole story: The Overstory in literature & fiction, read by Suzanne Toren.

Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2019 A monumental novel about reimagining our place in the living world, by one of our most “prodigiously talented” novelists ( New York Times Recording Review ). The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 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. These and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by trees, are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest. There is a world alongside ours – vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. ©2018 Richard Powers (P)2018 Recorded Books

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