Playground

"Richard Powers won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Overstory, a book that helped many readers see trees in a different way. This novel does something similar with the world’s oceans and reefs. He weaves a story spanning decades, tracing a friendship and rivalry between childhood friends whose life paths veer in different directions. And he somehow manages to balance the sweep of subjects like colonialism, ecosystems and artificial intelligence with intimate details of humans playing games and cuttlefish putting on an underwater light show."