Greenwood I (Italian Edition)

Jacinda "Jake" Greenwood works as a naturalist guide, leading wealthy eco-tourists to explore the lush forests of an island in British Columbia that curiously – a coincidence? – bears her name. Without roots or family ties, one day Jake comes into possession of her grandmother's diary, an unexpected help that allows her to reconstruct her past. Like walking around the circumference of an ancient tree, one circle after another, she is finally able to traverse the passage of time, the years that have accumulated like layers of wood: one on top of the other. Reading those pages, Jake realizes that her own existence rests upon invisible layers, enclosed within the lives of those who came before her, in a series of crimes and miracles, coincidences and choices that led to her; each layer is the consequence of another, just as every success and disaster are forever preserved.

Tracing back through the 20th century, she will discover that what unites all members of the Greenwood dynasty since the distant 1908 – when the line took root following a head-on collision between two trains – is the forest itself. With their silent pulse, the trees offer shelter, but also harbor crimes, extreme decisions, sacrifices, and mistakes. Towering, compelling, and brilliantly structured like the concentric rings of a tree trunk, The Greenwoods brings to life the web of lies, omissions, and half-truths that mark the origins of every family, a tangle of secrets and betrayals that spans four generations united in the fate of Canada's forests.

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