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Barkskins by Annie Proulx
4.0

an epic story of diverse and extensive forests and First Nations Peoples greatly reduced in biological richness and cultural integrity by ignorance, greed, and willful blindness of European colonizers. I was disappointed but not surprised that the connection between the Duquet/Duke and Sel family trees died in a lawyer's office. The novel ends with the presence of human-induced climate change and the hope that trees/forests can save us if we plant/restore them. Proulx's descriptions of aerial, terrestrial and aquatic landscapes and lives are incredibly evocative.