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Greenwood
- Narrated by: Raven Dauda, David Ferry, Christo Graham, Amy Matysio
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award
Longlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize
A CBC Books "Best Canadian Fiction" Title of the Year
National Best Seller
From the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die 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. Cloud Atlas meets The Overstory in this ingenious nested-ring epic set against the devastation of the natural world.
They come for the trees.
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.
Transporting, 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.
What the critics say
"[An] eerily real-feeling future." (Globe and Mail)
"Rich with evocative descriptions of West Coast wilderness and anchored by a deep visceral bond to the trees that sustain us all, Greenwood is a literary page-turner that manages to be both nostalgic and modern, personal and political, intimately human and big-picture historical. In an era of so much uncertainty, it is comforting to see novelists begin to work through the biggest issue of our age. And, in this case, convert our collective suffering into brilliant, beauty-filled art." (Toronto Star)
"Greenwood is brilliant. Michael Christie shows a cross section of one family's history, revealing their dark secrets, loves, losses, and the mark of an accident still visible four generations later. Year by year, page by page, the layers of this intricate and elegant novel build into an epic story that is completely absorbing. I had to cancel everything for this book because I couldn't stop reading." (Claire Cameron, author of The Last Neanderthal)
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- Leanne Fournier
- 2020-01-13
A spellbinding account of human/nature
There were so many moments in the listening of this book where I gasped, had to hit pause and rewind because I simply didn’t want to miss a single word of Michael Christie’s profoundly beautiful story. I would jot lines of narration or dialogue down, in the hope that such impeccable storytelling and writing will come to me as I work to tell a similar tale. “If only we were like trees. If only we had centuries. Maybe then there’d be time enough for us to mend all the harm we have done.” Does it get any better than that? I think not. Greenwood gets five stars. I will be buying the printed version and will hold it close to my heart and at the side of my desk always.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-01-16
A View
A story about principles. Excellent inter generational perspectives that are at times frightening, admirable and frustrating. The author gives the reader plenty to think about. A wonderful story with many themes and events that kept me engaged from Chapter one to the end.
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- Alli Ross
- 2020-07-23
LOVED
Love this book. Like beyond. It was a gem. I was a bit bored/ under-enthused by the ending though. I highly recommend reading 100%.
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- Laura P.
- 2019-11-30
Disappointing ending
I was absolutely loving this novel and could no wait to keep listening. But the ending was such a disappointment. At times it was difficult to keep all the characters and decades straight.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-05-30
Most enjoyable. Well done.
Overall the book was an interesting story with well developed characters set in settings that were intricately described.
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- helga grout
- 2023-05-22
Greenwood an Epic Story
This story captivated my attention right from the beginning as I followed generations of family members living with circumstances each trying do right now in life while learning , understanding and celebrating the sacredness of wood, trees, Forrest and the powers of nature.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-05-16
A Canadian Classic for our times.
A Canadian Classic for our times. A book about who we are and who we are not, to be read thoughtfully, and intentionally by those who love this land.
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- Cheri Allen
- 2023-05-09
Slow to take off for me but worth the wait in the end.
I almost stopped listening part way through but decided to continue and really glad I did. The way the story and characters weave together in the end is riveting.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-05-09
Excellent book.
This was an engrossing story that wove the future, past, and the state of our environment into a well told story about Family. The narrators were great. Well done.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-04-29
Loved every word
I found myself longing for the workday to end so I could sink back into this story again. Beautiful. Profound. Engrossing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-04-24
Beautiful heart wrenching story
I got so wrapped up in the story that I devoured it relatively quickly and now that it’s over I kind of wish I could savoured it little more.
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- Regis
- 2021-03-06
Exceptional writing, intriguing premise
Refreshing to read such a well written story based on an insightful premise of humanities’ selfish nature. He is one of the best writers I’ve read in years...