![]() ![]() ![]() Sih Hsuin moves to America, changes his name to Winston Ma, and gets married. Before he leaves, his father gives him their family’s treasures: three jade rings carved like trees, and an ancient scroll portraying Buddhist adepts. The narrative then shifts to China, where Ma Sih Hsuin is preparing to move to America to attend engineering school. When he returns the next morning, he finds his family dead, killed by a gas leak. Visiting the family farm for Christmas one year, Nick is stranded on the road by a snowstorm. ![]() This ritual lasts for generations, up to the latest Hoel, an art student named Nicholas. Jørgen’s son buys a camera and begins taking a photo of the chestnut tree once a month. One seedling survives and grows massive, even as a blight wipes out most of the country’s other chestnuts. The first part begins in the mid-1800s, following the Hoel family as Jørgen Hoel brings six chestnuts from New York and plants them at his new home in Iowa. The Overstory introduces each of its nine main characters with their own section. ![]()
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