Greenwood

Trade paperback – NEW

A magnificent generational saga that charts a familys rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, and the conflicted relationship with the source of its fortunetrees.

They come for the trees. Its 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich-eco-tourists in one of the worlds last remaining forests. Its 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall and facing the possibility of his own death. Its 1974 and Willow Greenwood is just out of jail for one of her environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her fathers once vast and rapacious timber empire. Its 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 Christies 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 familys origin story. It is a magnificent novel of greed, sacrifice, love, and the ties that bindand the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.