Greenwood

Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie s Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. A sweeping intergenerational saga that explores trees and their roots from the precious evergreens that become commodities in the entertainment business of the future to the intricately tangled trees of family all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree. Every one of Greenwood s characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favorite reads in recent memory. Kira Jane Buxton

Christie skillfully teases out the details in a page-turner of a saga that complements sylvan books such as Sometimes a Great Notion and The Overstory, one that closes with Jake s realization that, tangled lineage and all, a family is less a tree than a collection of individuals pooling their resources through intertwined roots.  Beguilingly structured, elegantly written: ecoapocalyptic but with hope that somehow we ll make it. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A rugged, riveting novel . . . This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers s The Overstory while offering a convincing vision of potential ecological destruction. Publishers Weekly (starred review)