What first fascinated me about this book was its structure. Like the rings of a tree, the story begins on the outer ring in the future and heads to the centre—its heartwood—going back in time exploring a key member of the Greenwood clan to 1934. Then the story heads out across the rings to the opposite edge completing Greenwood lives until it ends with Jake in 2038.
While this may seem like a family saga full of interesting characters, at the core of the tale, is the disrespect of Earth’s environment and its resources that are not infinite and the consequences of this insatiable greed.
Well written and engaging, I cannot understand how this book was voted out on the first round of Canada Reads. None of the other contestants interested me the way this story has.
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