Greenwood Novel

One of Canada’s most acclaimed novelists presents a magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, this rugged and riveting novel is sure to satisfy fans of Richard Powers’s The Overstory, according to a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The New York Times Book Review also praises the visionary moments laced into Christie’s shape-shifting narrative, as Greenwood penetrates to the core of things.

In 2038, Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, working as an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world’s last remaining forests. In 2008, Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, laid up after a workplace fall, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. In 1974, Willow Greenwood is out of jail after being locked up for environmental protests, attempting to atone for the sins of her father’s timber empire. In 1934, Everett Greenwood is alone in his maple-syrup camp squat when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in a web of 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.

A shining, intricate clockwork of a novel, Greenwood is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story of the bonds and breaking points of money and love, wood, and blood, and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.

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