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The Overstory challenges traditional notions of storytelling by giving equal importance to the lives of trees and forests. Powers employs a narrative structure that reflects the layered complexity of forest ecosystems, with the human stories forming the "understory" and the overarching narrative of trees and forests representing the "overstory ...
Robert K. J. Killheffer in his review for Fantasy & Science Fiction said "Forty Signs of Rain is a fascinating depiction of the workings of science and politics, and an urgent call to readers to confront the threat of climate change." [32] Robinson's climate-themed novel, titled New York 2140, was published in March 2017. [33]
The Overstory, published in April 2018, is about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. It won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction , was shortlisted for the Booker Prize [ 17 ] and the $75,000 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award , [ 18 ] and was runner-up for the Dayton ...
Global economic policymakers had been braced for an economic firestorm from the new U.S. administration but instead got a surprisingly restrained start from Donald Trump, who remains big on ...
"India's average tariffs are still much higher compared to the United States, Japan and China," said Ajay Srivastava, founder of Global Trade Research Initiative, a think tank based in Delhi.
Julia Lorraine Hill (born February 18, 1974), best known as Julia Butterfly Hill, is an American environmental activist and tax redirection advocate. She lived in a 200-foot (61 m)-tall, approximately 1,000-year-old California redwood tree for 738 days between December 10, 1997, and December 18, 1999.
4. Retribution is high on the agenda. During the campaign, Trump made no secret that retribution was on his mind. What has surprised some is the priority it has taken on his agenda from the start.
Kirkus Reviews, in its starred review, called Bewilderment a "touching novel that offers a vital message with uncommon sympathy and intelligence." [ 5 ] Dwight Garner of The New York Times characterized it as a book about "ecological salvation" with a "nubbly sentimentality" but said it "is so meek, saccharine and overweening in its piety about ...