The Oxford Brotherhood

512 pages

Published April 2, 2019

ISBN:
9780393356687

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4 stars (2 reviews)

1 edition

Depressing, compelling, uplifting

4 stars

Content warning Reveals my takeaway

let it rewrite your relationship to trees and time

5 stars

This book pulled me into its world of trees and gutted me. I loved the richly drawn human characters and the stories they and the author tell about and learn from trees. I didn’t love the whiteness of the book, but also the relationship Powers describes between people and trees is a particularly white western one—some sense of indigenous stewardship before the end would have made that less irksome. But the book is beautiful and devastating to read, and I can’t stop thinking about trees.