Greenwood Italian Edition

Jacinda "Jake" Greenwood works as a nature guide, accompanying wealthy eco-minded tourists to explore the lush forests of an island in British Columbia, which coincidentally – or is it a coincidence? – bears her name. Rootless and without a family, one day Jake comes into possession of her grandmother's diary, an unexpected aid that allows her to reconstruct her past. Like tracing the circumference of a centuries-old tree, one ring after another, she is finally able to traverse the time that has been, the years that have built up like wood: layer upon layer. Reading those pages, Jake realizes that her existence also rests on invisible layers, encapsulated in the lives of those who preceded her, in the series of crimes and miracles, coincidences and choices that have led to her: each layer is the consequence of another, just as every success and disaster are preserved forever.

As she retraces the steps of the 20th century, she will discover that what unites all the members of the Greenwood dynasty since as far back as 1908 – when the family took root following a head-on train collision – is the forest itself. With their silent pulsing, the trees offer shelter, but they also harbor crimes, extreme decisions, sacrifices, and mistakes. Imposing, compelling, and brilliantly structured like the concentric rings of a 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 falls on four generations united in the destiny of Canada's forests.

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