I was first drawn to this book for its post-climate crisis Canadian setting (in the very near future, an event called The Withering has killed most of the world’s trees) but it’s so much more than that. It’s the story of the Greenwood family over the course of the 20th century. It’s a mystery, a cautionary tale, a family drama. It’s chances missed, stories lost, secrets kept. I absolutely loved this book. “What are families other than fictions? Stories told about a particular cluster of people for a particular reason? And like all stories, families are not born, they’re invented, pieced together from love and lies and nothing else.”