{"product_id":"the-overstory-2","title":"The Overstory","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. 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. These four, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, \u003cem\u003eThe Overstory\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Overstory\u003c\/em\u003e is a book for all readers who despair of humanity's self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? \u003cem\u003e\"Listen. There's something you need to hear.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947242356967,"sku":"9780393635522","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_c6ea0a5f-cc35-4dde-b25d-160af6e969c7.jpg?v=1775484710","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-overstory-2","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}