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 coincidentally – or perhaps not by chance – bears her name. Without roots or a family to lean on, one day Jake comes into possession of her grandmother's diary, an unexpected aid that allows her to piece together her past. Like tracing the circumference of an ancient tree, one ring at a time, she is finally able to journey through the time that has passed, the years that have accumulated like layers of wood: one upon another. As she reads those pages, Jake realizes that her own existence is also built upon invisible layers, encapsulated within the lives of those who came before her, within the series of crimes and miracles, coincidences and choices that led to her: each layer is a consequence of another, just as every success and disaster are forever preserved.

Tracing back through the twentieth 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 they also harbour crimes, extreme decisions, sacrifices, and mistakes. Majestic, compelling, and brilliantly structured like the concentric rings of a trunk, The Greenwoods unfolds the web 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 fate of Canada's forests.

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