Greenwood Italian Edition

Jacinda "Jake" Greenwood works as a naturalist guide and accompanies wealthy eco-tourists to explore the lush forests of an island in British Columbia, which curiously - a coincidence? - bears her name. Without roots and without a family to fall back on, one day Jake comes into possession of her grandmother's diary, an unexpected aid that allows her to reconstruct her past. As if tracing the circumference of an ancient tree, one circle after another, she is finally able to traverse the time that has been, the years that have accumulated like wood: layer upon layer. Reading those pages, Jake realizes that her existence also rests on invisible layers, enclosed in the lives of those who came before her, in the series of crimes and miracles, coincidences and choices that led to her: each layer is the consequence of another, just as every success and every disaster are preserved forever.

Looking back on 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 pulsing, the trees offer shelter, but they also guard crimes, extreme decisions, sacrifices, and mistakes. Majestic, compelling, and brilliantly structured like the concentric rings of a trunk, The Greenwoods stages the intertwining of lies, omissions, and half-truths that marks the origins of every family, a tangle of secrets and betrayals that falls on four generations united in the destiny of the Canadian forests.

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