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aftbooks 's review for:
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
While I applaud the well crafted storytelling and longitudinal, generational narratives woven with the fate and power of various trees and characters’ ties to them/their fate, I really didn’t enjoy this book. It was readable and I actually understand the Pulitzer for the effort and craft of it but gruesome, traumatic acts and events are not the only ways to elicit strong or compelling emotions. It otherwise felt a bit like reading Thomas Mann, not only for the drawn out time of it all, but for the voice and peculiar ways of making the characters hurt or die in unique ways. They are interesting things to talk about but I wouldn’t compel others to read it all the same.