Greenwood Product (Italian Edition)

Jacinda "Jake" Greenwood works as a naturalist guide, accompanying wealthy ecotourists to explore the lush forests of an island in British Columbia, which coincidentally – or perhaps not – bears her name. Without roots or family ties, Jake one day comes into possession of her grandmother's diary, an unexpected aid that allows her to reconstruct her past. Like tracing the circumference of an ancient tree, she is finally able to traverse the times that were, the years that have accumulated like wood: layer upon layer. Reading those pages, Jake realizes that her own existence rests on invisible layers, encompassed in the lives of those who came before her, in a series of crimes and miracles, coincidences and choices that led to her: each layer is the consequence of another, just as every success and disaster is forever preserved.

Tracing back through the twentieth century, she will discover that what unites all members of the Greenwood dynasty since the distant 1908 – when the lineage took root following a head-on collision between two trains – is the forest itself. With their silent pulse, the trees offer refuge, but they also conceal crimes, extreme decisions, sacrifices, and mistakes.

Majestic, compelling, and brilliantly structured like the concentric rings of a tree trunk, The Greenwoods stages the intertwining of lies, omissions, and half-truths that mark the origins of every family, a tangle of secrets and betrayals that reverberates through four generations united in the destiny of Canada's forests.

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