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Literature · 2018

The Overstory

Richard Powers

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The Overstory
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Keeps power in play with a different literature voice.

Nine Americans whose lives are entangled with trees. Ecological fiction at its most ambitious.

This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.

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Nine Americans whose lives are entangled with trees. Ecological fiction at its most ambitious.

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Nine Americans whose lives are entangled with trees. Ecological fiction at its most ambitious.

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