Greenwood / Michael Christie.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFrom 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780771024474
- ISBN: 0771024479
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (15 hr., 36 min., 37 sec.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York, NY] : McClelland & Stewart, 2019.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by David Ferry, Amy Matysio, Christo Graham and Raven Dauda. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed October 25, 2019). |
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Subject: | Families > Fiction. Environmental degradation > Fiction. British Columbia > Fiction. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |