![]() ![]() ![]() To the other side were the Santa Cruz mountains, covered in redwoods. Just to one side of me was one of the greatest concentrations of wealth and technological might in history: the corporate HQs of Google, Apple, Intel, HP, Facebook, eBay, Cisco, Tesla, Oracle, Netflix, and so many more. Powers explains, “I was teaching at Stanford and living in Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley. He had a “religious conversion”-not in the theistic sense, he has explained, but one that left him breathless as to how he had never really noticed the trees around him before. Powers was teaching writing at Stanford when his walks led him to the Santa Cruz Mountains, where he was promptly astonished by the redwoods there. ![]() Powers also weaves in the stories of the trees themselves, initially having thought they would be the main characters but deciding to have them play supporting-but crucial-roles. Spanning multiple time periods and including numerous narrators, it tells the story of a group of activists who are called to protect the last 3% of redwood trees on the Earth. Richard Powers' The Overstory(2018) is an ambitious, profound novel with an urgent environmental message. ![]()
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