Barkskins

Barkskins is an enormous forest of a book, 700 pages and 300 years and three continents of loggers and family timber businesses and Native peoples and even a tree hugger or two. You can expect to find Annie Proulx's meticulous, spot-on use of words in every sentence of this book and you will know from page one that this book has been carefully researched, from the information given about the trees and the people and the places down to tiny details about the people's speech and mannerisms and habits. It's big, so be prepared to invest ten or twelve hours in reading through this beautifully dense work; you will be happy to do so.