5/24/2023 0 Comments The secret forest the overstory![]() ![]() One of the main characters is a field scientist named Patricia Westerford who discovers that trees communicate with one another through “countless, thousands of miles of living fungal threads. Trees, we learn while reading, are social beings, part of vast, interconnected communities. “The Overstory,” first published in 2018, is a deeply-affecting, perception-altering novel about trees and the suffering humans who learn to listen to their ancient, silent messages. It is a book that makes me want to remember what I had forgotten: the wordless understanding I had about trees and how as a child I listened to them, knowing they were alive and communicating. I hadn’t thought about her in a long time - my tree friend - until reading “The Overstory” by Richard Powers. Doolittle” chapter book out loud, because something in me thought the tree wanted to hear the story too. In those early elementary school days, I would spend long hours high up in the branches, reading my “Dr. I sensed that before I knew how to talk about it this tree knew things: she had a wise life force sucking and exhaling something true into our cookie-cutter suburb air. ![]() When I was in first grade, I made a stapled-together picture book about the pear tree in our yard called “My Friend the Tree.” I drew her in each of the four seasons with me, a smiling face attached to legs, right alongside her. ![]()
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