Richard Powers' The Overstory

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I've brought this up before, but I've been reading around it for a while (haven't managed to pick up a copy and read the full thing yet) and that alone has made quite the impression. I also know someone who's currently reading it and it's put them on their arse with regard to how they view climate action and humanity's relationship with the natural world.

I don't think he's necessarily saying anything that new, but the fact that a "serious" writer like Powers has turned his eye to this sort of thing has a lot of value, imo, particularly at this time. As he says in the book, “the best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story”.
 
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Actual tree spirits manifesting as GPS at one point.
Cannot knock the writing though - he entirely avoids falling into that usual American English homespun style (when describing a character's history and experiences, for example) that reads so terribly on this side of the Atlantic.
 
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