Greenwood Italian Edition

Jacinda “Jake” Greenwood works as a naturalist guide, leading wealthy eco-conscious tourists through the lush forests of an island in British Columbia, which curiously – a coincidence? – bears her name. Rootless and without a family background, 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 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. As she reads those pages, Jake realizes that her own existence also 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 led to her: each layer is the consequence of another, just as every success and every disaster are preserved forever.

Tracing back through the twentieth century, she will discover that what unites all members of the Greenwood dynasty since the distant 1908 – when the family 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. Imposing, compelling, and brilliantly structured like the concentric rings of a tree trunk, The Greenwoods stages the interweaving of lies, omissions, and half-truths that mark the origins of every family, a tangle of secrets and betrayals that reverberates through four generations united in the fate of Canada's forests.

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