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Greenwood: A Novel
Greenwood: A Novel | Michael Christie
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It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violent timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple syrup camp squat when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime that will cling to his family for decades.
And throughout, there are trees: thrumming a steady, silent pulse beneath Christie's effortless sentences and working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. A shining, intricate clockwork of a novel, Greenwood is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story of the bonds and breaking points of money and love, wood and blood—and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.
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One of my favourite books that I read this year.
Michael Christie‘s writing is beautiful and the story is unique and fascinating. I loved each generation and the structure was so interesting. On top of that, the hardcover books is absolutely beautiful. This book is mostly a historical fiction, but it moves into the present day and then into a future that is more in line with apocalypse stories, so it covers a wide range of genres.

jessjess What a gorgeous cover! 3y
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This is a big story, told in a beautiful way. I have a habit of dragging my feet on books that I‘m really enjoying, I don‘t want them to end. This one took forever to finish. I loved how the characters and storylines are woven together through multiple timelines. It does remove some suspense because you know the events that are going to happen in some places. But I think it‘s worth it because it makes the characters deeper and more connected.

MommyWantsToReadHerBook Wow, this sounds beautiful. 3y
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