Our Seattle chapter spent two evenings inside Richard Powers' canopy of stories — and we left changed. Here's what surfaced when sixty readers sat with the same forest.
What the trees taught us
We expected an environmental novel. We got something stranger: a meditation on time, kinship, and what it means to listen at a frequency longer than a human life. The conversation kept circling back to the question of agency — whose voice gets to speak, and what does it mean for a tree to have one?
"The best argument in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story." — Richard Powers
We're carrying these conversations into our spring chapter circles. If you missed it, the recordings are in the member portal.
