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Trees in fiction with Richard Powers, Hannah Kent, Elif Shafak and more

May 22, 202354 min
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Richard Powers, Hannah Kent, Elif Shafak and Michael Christie all use trees in their fiction to touch on themes of roots and connections, growth and rebirth, the family tree. But as our climate changes, is the way novelists use trees also changing to make the natural world the star of the story? 

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