In coordination with the City of Bexley's Arbor Month Celebration\, join Bexley Mayor Ben Kessler and Bexley City Co uncilman Troy Markham for an engaging Zoom discussion about Richard Powers 's Pulitzer Prize winning novel\, The Overstory.
\nThe Overstory \;is a sweeping\, impassioned work of activism and resi stance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural w orld. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds\, Richard Powers&r squo\;s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables t hat range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wa rs of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours&md ash\;vast\, slow\, interconnected\, resourceful\, magnificently inventive\ , and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catas trophe.
\nRegistration required. After registering\, you wil l receive the Zoom event link via email.
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