Greenwood A Novel

Greenwood is a magnificent, multi-generational saga structured like the nested growth rings of a tree, charting a family's rise and fall, its secrets, and its conflicted relationship with the source of its fortune: trees. Set against the devastation of the natural world, the story spans over a hundred years from 1908 to 2038. It begins in 2038 with Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood, an overqualified tour guide for ultra-rich eco-tourists in one of the world's last remaining forests. The narrative then moves backward to 2008, where Liam Greenwood, a carpenter, is sprawled on a concrete floor after a workplace fall; to 1974, with Willow Greenwood, recently out of jail after environmental protests against her father's vast timber empire; and to 1934, with Everett Greenwood, a solitary maple-syrup camp squatter who becomes entangled in a crime after finding an abandoned infant. The novel explores themes of fate, family legacies, greed, sacrifice, and the enduring human connection to the environment, all tied together by a knot of lies and omissions at the root of the Greenwood family's origin story.

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