Cathrine ☯️ 's Reviews > North Woods

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"Now, in the place that was once the belly of the man who offered the apple to the woman, one of the apple seeds, sheltered in the shattered rib cage, breaks its coat and drops a root into the soil, lifts a pair of pale green cotyledons. A shoot rises, thickens, seeks the bars of light above it, gently parts the fifth and sixth ribs that once guarded the dead man's meager heart."

I haven't been so in love with a book since Richard Powers' The Overstory. I first bought the stellar Audible version with a superb cast of narrators and then purchased a read copy after finishing, it was that epic for me.
I read too many books to buy them so it's a first paying for the same book twice. What better endorsement can I offer up?

"To read it is to travel to the limits of what the novel can do.”
Alice Jolly The Guardian

"The novel is above all a tale of ephemerality and succession, of the way time accrues in layers, like sedimentary soil.”
Heller McAlpin NPR

"This is fiction that deals in minutes and in centuries, that captures the glory and the triviality of human lives. . .The forest and the trees."
Rand Richards Cooper New York Times