The key lies in the title. We’re the overstory – greedy humans, blindly bent on the planet’s destruction, but finally insignificant and transitory. The real drama, the understory, is in the ancient world of trees – an oak, writes Richard Powers in his often awe-inspiring twelfth novel.
17 May 2018, The Tablet
People and trees
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