Greenwood Novel

One of Canada's most acclaimed novelists presents a magnificent generational saga that charts a family's rise and fall, along with its secrets and inherited crimes. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, this rugged and riveting novel is sure to satisfy fans of Richard Powers's The Overstory. The narrative is filled with visionary moments, penetrating to the core of things, as noted by Publishers Weekly and The New York Times Book Review.

In 2038, Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, working as an overqualified tour guide in one of the world's last remaining forests for ultra-rich vacationers. In 2008, Liam Greenwood is a carpenter recovering from a workplace fall in an empty mansion. Willow Greenwood, released from jail in 1974 after her environmental protests, struggles with the sins of her father's timber empire. In 1934, Everett Greenwood hears the cries of an abandoned infant in his maple-syrup camp, setting off a series of events that will haunt his family for decades.

Throughout the narrative, trees play a crucial role, symbolizing withering, weathering, and survival. Greenwood is a shining, intricate clockwork of a novel, blending rain-soaked and sun-dappled imagery in a story of money and love, wood, and blood. It explores the bonds and breaking points of a family as they strive towards growth and the light.

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