Tag: The Overstory
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The Overstory: A Brief Book Review
I just finished reading The Overstory by Richard Powers. Let me tell you about it. Let me tell you how it helped. I’d been reading a lot of non-fiction for a larger writing project; bell hooks on teaching and community building; Gloria Ansaldúa’s Borderlands; Martin Luther King’s Where Do We Go from Here?; Audre Lorde’s…
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Traveling
” A thing can travel everywhere, just by holding still.” These are the words of a tree in Richard Powers’ beautiful novel, The Overstory. The story reveals how trees communicate with us and create community, supporting each other wherever they are planted. It’s a story that is giving me hope in these days of COVID-19…
Teri McDowell Ott 