Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Overstory‘s essential theme is mankind’s separation from nature and how this if left unchecked will lead to the demise of the human race – though we will be outlived by other species. Receiving praise from such influential figures as Margaret Atwood, the novel concerns characters who, through life-changing experiences with trees, are awakened to the majesty of the natural world and how people have become its enemy.
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Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Overstory‘s essential theme is mankind’s separation from nature and how this if left unchecked will lead to the demise of the human race – though we will be outlived by other species. Receiving praise from such influential figures as Margaret Atwood, the novel concerns characters who, through life-changing experiences with trees, are awakened to the majesty of the natural world and how people have become its enemy.