They Call the Place Wild

Richard Powers’ The Overstory meets the Brothers Grimm and Slavic folklore in this lush dark fantasy about the stories we’re told and the stories we make for ourselves.

Two young Belarusian sisters live near the Bialowieza Forest, the last of Europe’s great primeval forests. Dasha is the shadow sister: dark in nature and demeanor, unlovable to all but her sister Natalya, who she will follow anywhere

So when Natalya is taken away across the forest, Dasha does what she has always done: she f...