Have You Considered the Quantum Question in Richard Powers’s The Overstory

Caution — This article is full of spoilers about this great work of modern fiction

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As a writer, I am in awe of truly great writers; none more so than Richard Powers, author of The Overstory. The Overstory won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in fiction and is Powers’s twelfth novel. I have yet to read any of the others, which is to say, I am…