Greenwood by Michael Christie - Hardcover Edition

2038 finds Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood as a storyteller and a liar, working as an overqualified tour guide on a remote wooded island off the coast of British Columbia, one of the world's last remaining forests. The event known as “the Withering” has devastated most old-growth forests, making the island a center of eco-tourism for the rich and famous due to the scarcity of large trees.

In 2008, Liam Greenwood, a carpenter, finds himself sprawled on his back after a workplace fall, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. In 1974, Willow Greenwood is released from prison after being locked up for her environmental protests, attempting to atone for her father’s history as a timber baron. And in 1934, Everett Greenwood is alone in his maple-syrup camp squat, when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and becomes entangled in a web of crime, secrets, and betrayal that will haunt his family for decades.

Throughout the generations, the family is tied to the constant presence of trees, a steady, silent pulse beneath Christie’s effortless sentences, representing withering, weathering, and survival. Greenwood is a novel of intricate clockwork, a story of the bonds and breaking points of money and love, wood and blood—and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.

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