The Investor's Shelf — one book
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wis
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
A novel, not nonfiction, but Powers does something none of the other books here accomplish: he makes the timescale of trees felt as an emotional experience. The result is that you finish it reading the other books differently — with a less human-centric sense of what time and loss mean.
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Who recommended it 1
Barack Obamareported
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“Obama picked Powers's Pulitzer-winning novel for his 2019 list. Nine Americans are drawn together through their connections to trees; the book works as both literary fiction and as an argument about environmental time scales that dwarf human attention spans.”
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