Greenwood: Italian Edition

Guide naturalistic Jacinda "Jake" Greenwood works, accompanying wealthy eco-conscious tourists to explore the lush forests of an island in British Columbia, which curiously – a coincidence? – bears her name. Without roots or a family to lean on, one day Jake stumbles upon her grandmother's diary, an unexpected aid that allows her to piece together her past. Like circling the circumference of a centuries-old tree, one ring after another, she is finally able to traverse the passage of time, the years that have layered upon each other like wood: layer upon layer.

As she reads through the pages, Jake realizes that her own existence rests on invisible layers, entwined with the lives of those who came before her, intertwined with a series of crimes and miracles, coincidences and choices that have led her to where she is now: each layer a consequence of another, just as every success and disaster are forever preserved.

Looking back at the twentieth century, she discovers that what unites all members of the Greenwood dynasty since the distant 1908 – when the lineage took root after a head-on collision between two trains – is the forest itself. With their silent pulsations, the trees offer shelter, but also harbor crimes, extreme decisions, sacrifices, and mistakes.

Majestic, captivating, and brilliantly structured like the concentric rings of a trunk, The Greenwoods unveils 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 bound by the fate of Canada's forests.

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