Greenwood (Italian Edition)

Jacinda “Jake” Greenwood works as a nature guide, accompanying wealthy ecology enthusiasts on visits to the lush forests of an island in British Columbia, curiously – a coincidence? - bearing her name. Without roots or family, one day Jake comes into possession of her grandmother's diary, an unexpected help that allows her to reconstruct her past. As if circling the circumference of an ancient tree, one ring after another, she is finally able to travel through the time that was, 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 preceded 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 precisely the forest. With their silent pulsing, the trees offer shelter, but also guard crimes, extreme decisions, sacrifices, and mistakes. Majestic, compelling, and brilliantly structured like the concentric rings of a trunk, The Greenwoods stages the interweaving 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 Canada's forests.

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