![]() ![]() “We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men,” Powers writes, quoting the naturalist John Muir. ![]() As is the case with much of Powers’ fiction, it takes shape slowly-first in a pastiche of narratives establishing the characters (a psychologist, an undergraduate who died briefly but was revived, a paraplegic computer game designer, a homeless vet), and then in the kaleidoscopic ways these individuals come together and break apart. ![]() In this work, Powers takes on the subject of nature, or our relationship to nature, as filtered through the lens of environmental activism, although at its heart the book is after more existential concerns. Powers’ ( Orfeo, 2014, etc.) 12th novel is a masterpiece of operatic proportions, involving nine central characters and more than half a century of American life. ![]()
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