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A group of strangers band together to protect the few remaining trees and in the process, find out that the trees are communicating with each other. "The Overstory" is set in a world where, as novelist 

 writes, trees have this to say about humans: 

"Your kind never sees us whole. You miss the half of it, and more. There's always as much below ground as above."

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In "The Overstory," Richard Powers imagines a world where only a few acres of virgin forest remain on the continent.

A group of strangers band together to protect the new remaining trees and in the process, find out that the trees are communicating with each other. "The Overstory" is set in a world where, as novelist Richard Powers writes, trees have this to say about humans: 

"Your kind never sees us whole. You miss the half of it, and more. There's always as much below ground as above."

Novel connects characters through the magnificent trees they cherish

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