This is a very good novel about trees. It sticks to its subject a little too on the nose at times, meaning every once in awhile when it comes back to trees, it feels a little forced, but for the most part, that’s what a novel is. I went into the novel with a few bits of prior knowlege: a) it’s about trees b) Richard Powers tends to write what I call scientific fiction, which is related to science fiction in that it levies in […]