The Trees
The Awakening Land, Book One
A family settles the Ohio forest in the years after the Revolution, in the first novel of Richter's Awakening Land trilogy.
Worth Luckett brings his family west into the unbroken Ohio forest in the years after the Revolution, where the trees are so dense the sun barely reaches the ground. Richter’s 1940 novel, first of the Awakening Land trilogy, is about clearing land that does not want to be cleared.
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Tracy Chevalier
The trees are so strong and permanent that in order to survive there, you have to uproot the trees and they’re constantly pushing their way back in. It was in this book that I began to understand how hard it is to uproot a tree. If you’re going to plant a field full of something, you have to clear the land first, and the trees do not want to give up their roots very easily. It’s hellish getting them up.
Interview · March 2016
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