Village BOOK REVIEW

Greenwood

Greenwood was published in 2020 by author Michael Christie. The novel is a multi-generational saga spanning the times of 1934, 1974, 2008, and 2034. It would appeal to tree lovers or those who enjoy the forest. The setting is Canada, and the Greenwood family is an odd collection of characters. They all seem to fall on hard times. Each of the time periods focuses on a family member or two, and I got a feeling for each generation. The majority of the book seems to focus on the 1934 time period, but the book begins and ends in 2034.

I appreciated this quote from one of the female characters: “Take heart, she seems to say. The world has been on the brink of ending before. The dust has always been waiting to swallow us. People have always struggled and suffered. Your poverty is not shameful. It is not a failure of your character. Life, by its very nature, is precarious. And your struggles are never for nothing.”

I got a sense of the plundering of forests that has occurred in history

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