In this episode, I'm reading the entire first chapter of The Overstory (2018) a novel by Richard Powers. In 2019, The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The Overstory is a book about man's relationship to nature, as seen through the eyes of trees. In this reading, you'll hear the story of the Jorgen Hoel, who in the mid-1800s moves from Brooklyn to Iowa; starts a family, and happens to plant (what will become) one of the last remaining Chestnut Trees in America.