![]() ![]() Each character has some kind of connection to trees, including a Vietnam veteran who gets a job planting seedlings and an artist whose family has been photographing the same chestnut tree for a century. Mimi is just one of the nine characters that Powers follows in The Overstory, which won the Pulitzer Prize two years ago. Powers describes the moment the “outrage floods into her, the sneakiness of man, a sense of injustice larger than her whole life, the old loss that will never, ever be answered.” This reaction starts her on a path to become a radical activist willing to throw her entire life away to protect trees. In The Overstory by Richard Powers, Mimi Ma arrives at her office one morning to find that the woods she can see from her desk have been cut down. ![]() But what would happen if one day you woke up and they were gone? When you spend most of your life here, it’s tempting to take them for granted. Almost everywhere you look here in Washington state-at least in the western part of it-you can find massive fir trees and towering red cedars. I grew up (and still live) in a place known for its beautiful forests. ![]()
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