{"product_id":"greenwood-9781984822017","title":"Greenwood","description":"\u003cb\u003eA magnificent generational saga that charts a family's rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, from one of Canada's most acclaimed novelists\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize - \"A rugged, riveting novel . . . This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers's \u003ci\u003eThe Overstory\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"There are plenty of visionary moments laced into [Christie's] shape-shifting narrative. . . . \u003ci\u003eGreenwood\u003c\/i\u003e penetrates to the core of things.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violent timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple-syrup camp squat, when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And throughout, there are trees: a steady, silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie's effortless sentences, working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. A shining, intricate clockwork of a novel, \u003ci\u003eGreenwood\u003c\/i\u003e is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story of the bonds and breaking points of money and love, wood, and blood--and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Christie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hogarth Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781984822017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Christie\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eIf I Fall, If I Die, \u003c\/i\u003e which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Kirkus Prize and selected as a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice. His linked collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Beggar's Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and won the City of Vancouver Book Award. His essays and book reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e. A former carpenter and homeless-shelter worker, Christie divides his time between Victoria and Galiano Island, British Columbia, where he lives with his wife and two sons in a timber-frame house that he built himself.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Michael Christie \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47283540852893,"sku":"9781984822017","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_dbc35dcc-d333-4b55-ba54-8956ddcefed1.jpg?v=1759967306","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/greenwood-9781984822017","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}