02233cam a2200325 4500 418402199 TxAuBib 20200310120000.0 190701s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019026891 9781984822000 HRD 28.00 1984822004 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib Christie, Michael, 1976- Greenwood [BOOK] : a novel / Michael Christie. Green-wood. First U.S. edition. London : Hogarth, 2020. 504 pages : illustration ; 25 cm. "It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's oncevast and violent timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple syrup camp squat when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: thrumming a steady, silent pulse beneath Christie's effortless sentences and 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20200310. Families Fiction. Families British Columbia Fiction. Trees Fiction. Environmental degradation Fiction. Forest degradation Fiction. Forests and forestry Fiction. British Columbia Fiction. Domestic fiction.