Greenwood Italian Edition

Jacinda "Jake" Greenwood works as a naturalist guide, accompanying wealthy eco-tourists to explore the lush forests of an island in British Columbia, which curiously – a coincidence? – bears her name. Without roots or a family background, 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 a centuries-old tree, one ring after another, she is finally able to traverse the time that was, the years that have accumulated like wood: layer upon layer. Reading those pages, Jake realizes that even her existence rests on invisible layers, encapsulated in the lives of those who came before 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 every disaster are preserved forever.

Going back through 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 pulse, the trees offer shelter, but also harbor crimes, extreme decisions, sacrifices, and mistakes. Monumental, compelling, and brilliantly structured like the concentric rings of a tree trunk, The Greenwoods stages the tangle of lies, omissions, and half-truths that marks the origins of every family, a web of secrets and betrayals that falls on four generations united in the destiny of Canada's forests.

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