Bewilderment A Novel

Praise for The Overstory by Richard Powers

"It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it….It changed how I see things and that’s always, for me, a mark of a book worth reading."
— Barack Obama

"Monumental…A gigantic fable of genuine truths."
— Barbara Kingsolver, The New York Times Book Review, cover review

"Should be mandatory reading the world over."
— Emilia Clarke

"Extraordinary…What was happening to his characters passed into my conscience, like alcohol into the bloodstream, and left a feeling behind of grief or guilt, even after I put it down."
— Benjamin Markovits, The Guardian

"Transformative and wise."
— Naomi Klein

"Dazzlingly written…Powers is as brilliant on trees and arborescence as he has been in past novels on music, AI, and neuroscience."
— Robert Macfarlane

"The best book I’ve read in ten years…It’s a mind-opening fiction, and it connects us all in a very positive way to the things that we have to do if we want to regain our planet."
— Emma Thompson

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2021
Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction
A Best Book/Best Novel of 2021 at NPR, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, Audible, Goodreads, Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, Garden & Gun Magazine, and many more

A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory.