The latter, despite the fact that it was published way back in 2013, is currently spending its 79 th week on the New York Times’ bestseller list, where it currently ranks third in paperback nonfiction. And all these books are connected, not by underground fungi networks but by the “Customers who bought this item also bought” feature on Amazon, to Entangled Life and the likes of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s essay collection Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Simard, in addition to her own book contract, has chalked up a New York Times Magazine profile, a massively popular TED Talk, and now a name check on the most Emmy-nominated new sitcom in history.
Richard Powers based a character on Simard in his tree-besotted novel, 2018’s The Overstory, and won the Pulitzer Prize. Telling the public how much trees resemble human beings has richly rewarded Peter Wohlleben, a German forester, with an internationally bestselling book based on Simard’s findings, 2015’s The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, and an admiring documentary film about him released this year.
It’s a message those readers eagerly embrace.
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