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"Roots" (Preface) - "Adam Appich"

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Powers, Richard. The Overstory: A Novel. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018. Hardcover edition.

• Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Richard Powers’s The Overstory follows the narratives of nine strangers whose lives become interconnected through their mutual love for trees.

• The novel is related from the perspective of a third-person narrator in the present tense with limited focus on different characters in each chapter or section.

• The Overstory is divided into four main sections: “Roots,” “Trunk,” “Crown,” and “Seeds.”

• “Roots” is further divided into eight subchapters which introduce the main characters of the story.

• “Roots” opens with a brief preface that describes an unnamed woman sitting in a park with her back against a pine tree.

• The trees around the woman are communicating with her: “A chorus of...

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