# The Overstory

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- Book: [The Overstory](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-powers/the-overstory) ([The Overstory.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-powers/the-overstory.md))
- Authors: [Richard Powers](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-powers)
- Publisher: Penguin Random House
- ISBN: 978-18-0495-178-1
- Pages: 640
- Published: 2024-08-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Radical and exciting' Jessie Burton 'Breathtaking' Barbara Kingsolver 'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama 'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.