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Violence
Some
Environmental activism and its violence; some deaths
Language
Barely any
Literary prose throughout
Sexual Content
Some
Adult romantic relationships across multiple storylines; some content
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The sustained ecological grief of watching the natural world be destroyed while the law protects those doing it
What this book is about
Richard Powers's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows nine characters whose lives are shaped by trees—an inventor, an activist, a veteran, a scientist—as their stories converge around the question of what we owe to the natural world. Formally ambitious and emotionally expansive, it is one of the great novels about the climate crisis.
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