{"product_id":"9780771024481","title":"Greenwood","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel • Shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize • Shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize • Longlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize • A Canada Reads 2023 Contender • One of CBC Books' Best Canadian Fiction of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eIf I Fall, If I Die\u003c\/i\u003e comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eThe Overstory\u003c\/i\u003e in this ingenious nested-ring epic set against the devastation of the natural world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey come for the trees.\u003c\/i\u003e It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich-eco-tourists 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 and facing the possibility of his own death. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is just out of jail for one of her environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and rapacious timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is a Depression-era drifter who saves an abandoned infant, only to find himself tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransporting, beautifully written, and brilliantly structured like the nested growth rings of a tree, Greenwood reveals the knot of lies, omissions, and half-truths that exists at the root of every family's origin story. It is a magnificent novel of greed, sacrifice, love, and the ties that bind--and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.","brand":"Michael Christie (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":49979265843557,"sku":"9780771024481","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2651\/2997\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e960c175-630e-4c26-8698-b6299243f419.jpg?v=1759417305","url":"https:\/\/www.commonplaceingersoll.ca\/products\/9780771024481","provider":"Commonplace Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}