Greenwood: Italian Edition

Jacinda “Jake” Greenwood works as a naturalist guide, leading wealthy eco-minded tourists through the lush forests of an island in British Columbia - curiously named after her. Without roots or family, one day Jake comes into possession of her grandmother's diary, an unexpected aid that allows her to piece together her past. Like tracing the rings of an ancient tree, one circle after another, she is finally able to navigate through the layers of time that have built up like wood: layer upon layer. As she reads those pages, Jake realizes that her own existence is built upon invisible layers, encased within the lives of those who came before her - in a series of crimes and miracles, coincidences and choices that led to her: each layer a consequence of another, just as each success and each disaster is preserved forever.

Retracing backwards through the twentieth century, she discovers that what unites all the members of the Greenwood dynasty since the distant 1908 - when the family took root following a head-on train collision - is the forest itself. With their silent pulsing, the trees offer shelter, but also harbor crimes, extreme decisions, sacrifices, and mistakes.

Majestic, captivating, and brilliantly structured like the concentric rings of a tree trunk, "The Greenwoods" brings to life the intricate web of lies, omissions, and half-truths that mark the origins of every family - a tangle of secrets and betrayals that spans four generations united in the fate of the Canadian forests.

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