Greenwood Italian Edition

Jacinda "Jake" Greenwood works as a naturalist guide, accompanying wealthy, environmentally conscious tourists to explore the lush forests of an island in British Columbia that curiously – a coincidence? – bears her name. Without roots or family to anchor her, 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, circle after circle, 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 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.

Reversing course through the 20th century, she will discover that what unites all members of the Greenwood dynasty since the distant year of 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 also guard crimes, extreme decisions, sacrifices, and mistakes. Towering, compelling, and brilliantly structured like the concentric rings of a tree trunk, The Greenwoods stages the intertwining of lies, omissions, and half-truths that mark the origins of every family, a tangle of secrets and betrayals that reverberates through four generations bound by the destiny of Canada's forests.

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