When:
October 25, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
2019-10-25T19:00:00-04:00
2019-10-25T21:00:00-04:00
Where:
Home of Amy Eklund
Contact:
Amy Eklund
BUUF Book Club Meeting: "The Overstory" by Richard Powers @ Home of Amy Eklund

The BUUF Book Club will meet on Friday, October 25th, at 7:00 PM at the home of Amy Eklund. Participants will discuss the book “The Overstory” by Richard Powers. (Note: There will be no November Book Club Meeting due to the Thanksgiving holiday.)

More About “The OverStory”:

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
New York Times Bestseller
New York Times Notable Book and a Washington PostTimeOprah MagazineNewsweekChicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018
 
An Amazon Best Book of April 2018: Do you love trees? I thought I did, until I read Richard Powers’s The Overstory, and I realized that my appreciation of trees was lightweight at best. When one of Powers’s characters goes to a small grove outside her office window to determine the tree’s species, “She stands with her nose in the bark, perversely intimate. She doses herself for a long time, like a hospice patient self-administering the morphine.” Trees are not exactly an addiction to the wide-ranging cast of characters–an engineer, a Vietnam vet, a college student, a videogame designer, and more—but more like a touchstone that offers tradition and destiny at once. Powers, a National Book Award and Pushcart Prize–winning author, is devious in that he first immerses the reader in the lives of his characters before delicately oxygenating his story with the devastation of Dutch elm disease, the enduring strength of the sequoia, and the communication methods trees use to warn of predators and to lure allies. The Overstory might sound a bit woo-woo—and it definitely is that, though in such a way that it inspires passion instead of eye-rolling. This gorgeously written novel will seduce you into looking more closely at not only our fellow human beings but the towering bio-kingdom that is too often merely a backdrop to our days. Perhaps, like me, you will be inspired to walk out into the night to smell the rain sweeping through the nearby evergreen trees. —Adrian Liang, Amazon Book Review