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Richard Powers: Bewilderment (Hardcover, 2021, W. W. Norton & Company) 4 stars

The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual …

crushing

4 stars

An intimate parental dive into the wonder of the natural world and urge to activism in the face of our wide-eyed trance walk to species destruction. This felt narrower and less rounded than The Overstory, which may be fitting to cataclysm, and the traumas and some obvious referents may irk (mostly they didn't interfere here). The middle half's beauty justified it all for me.