Bewilderment
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Praise for The Overstory by Richard Powers
"It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it….It changed how I see things and that’s always, for me, a mark of a book worth reading."
— Barack Obama
"Monumental…A gigantic fable of genuine truths."
— Barbara Kingsolver, The New York Times Book Review, cover review
"Should be mandatory reading the world over."
— Emilia Clarke
"Extraordinary…What was happening to his characters passed into my conscience, like alcohol into the bloodstream, and left a feeling behind of grief or guilt, even after I put it down."
— Benjamin Markovits, The Guardian
"Transformative and wise."
— Naomi Klein
"Dazzlingly written…Powers is as brilliant on trees and arborescence as he has been in past novels on music, AI, and neuroscience."
— Robert Macfarlane
"The best book I’ve read in ten years…It’s a mind-opening fiction, and it connects us all in a very positive way to the things that we have to do if we want to regain our planet."
— Emma Thompson
"It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it….It changed how I see things and that’s always, for me, a mark of a book worth reading."
— Barack Obama
"Monumental…A gigantic fable of genuine truths."
— Barbara Kingsolver, The New York Times Book Review, cover review
"Should be mandatory reading the world over."
— Emilia Clarke
"Extraordinary…What was happening to his characters passed into my conscience, like alcohol into the bloodstream, and left a feeling behind of grief or guilt, even after I put it down."
— Benjamin Markovits, The Guardian
"Transformative and wise."
— Naomi Klein
"Dazzlingly written…Powers is as brilliant on trees and arborescence as he has been in past novels on music, AI, and neuroscience."
— Robert Macfarlane
"The best book I’ve read in ten years…It’s a mind-opening fiction, and it connects us all in a very positive way to the things that we have to do if we want to regain our planet."
— Emma Thompson