![]() All are seduced by the majesty of trees and express their arboreal love in different ways: through scholarship, activism, art, and even violent resistance. ![]() Set primarily on the West Coast, the story revolves around nine characters, separated by age and geography, whose “lives have long been connected, deep underground.” Among these are a wheelchair-bound computer game designer a scientist who uncovers the forest’s hidden communication systems a psychologist studying the personality types of environmental activists and a young woman who, after being electrocuted, hears voices urging her to save old-growth forests from logging. Occupying the same thematic terrain as Annie Proulx’s Barkskins, the latest from Powers ( Orfeo) is an impassioned but unsatisfying paean to the wonder of trees. ![]()
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