{"product_id":"0771024487-greenwood_a_novel","title":"Greenwood: A Novel","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eWinner Of The Arthur Ellis Award Longlisted For The 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize A Cbc Books Best Canadian Fiction Title Of The Year National Bestseller From The Award-winning Author Of If I Fall, If I Die Comes A Propulsive, Multigenerational Family Story, In Which The Unexpected Legacies Of A Remote Island Off The Coast Of British Columbia Will Link The Fates Of Five People Over A Hundred Years. Cloud Atlas Meets The Overstory In This Ingenious Nested-ring Epic Set Against The Devastation Of The Natural World. They Come For The Trees. It's 2038 And Jacinda (jake) Greenwood Is A Storyteller And A Liar, An Overqualified Tour Guide Babysitting Ultra-rich-eco-tourists In One Of The World's Last Remaining Forests. It's 2008 And Liam Greenwood Is A Carpenter, Sprawled On His Back After A Workplace Fall And Facing The Possibility Of His Own Death. It's 1974 And Willow Greenwood Is Just Out Of Jail For One Of Her Environmental Protests: Attempts At Atonement For The Sins Of Her Father's Once Vast And Rapacious Timber Empire. It's 1934 And Everett Greenwood Is A Depression-era Drifter Who Saves An Abandoned Infant, Only To Find Himself Tangled Up In The Web Of A Crime, Secrets, And Betrayal That Will Cling To His Family For Decades. And Throughout, There Are Trees: A Steady, Silent Pulse Thrumming Beneath Christie's Effortless Sentences, Working As A Guiding Metaphor For Withering, Weathering, And Survival. Transporting, Beautifully Written, And Brilliantly Structured Like The Nested Growth Rings Of A Tree, Greenwood Reveals The Knot Of Lies, Omissions, And Half-truths That Exists At The Root Of Every Family's Origin Story. It Is A Magnificent Novel Of Greed, Sacrifice, Love, And The Ties That Bind--and The Hopeful, Impossible Task Of Growing Toward The Light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eBooks\u003c\/li\u003e","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":47637632254142,"sku":"0771024487-3","price":17.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/91Rv4zSW80L.jpg?v=1781551270","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0771024487-greenwood_a_novel","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}