North Woods

A New York Times book review and Washington Post top ten book of the year • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The New York Times-bestselling novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.

BOOK SUMMARY

When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave—only to discover that the earth refuses to give up its secrets. A lovelorn painter, a sinister con man, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle: As the inhabitants confront the wonder and mystery around them, they begin to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniel Mason is the author of The Piano Tuner, A Far Country, The Winter Soldier, and A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, adapted for opera and the stage, and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His short stories and essays have been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, a National Magazine Award, and an O. Henry Prize. He is an assistant professor in the Stanford University department of psychiatry.

PRAISE

"Dazzling . . . a brave and original book, which invents its own form. It is both intimate and epic, playful and serious. To read it is to travel to the limits of what the novel can do." —The Guardian (US)

"A time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . . Each chapter germinates its own form while sending out tendrils that entwine beneath the surface of the novel . . . As [Mason] floats through thrillers, a bit of comic noir, erotic paranormal fiction and other genres, it's hard to imagine there is anything he can't do . . ." —The Washington Post

"Gorgeous . . . a tale of ephemerality and succession, of the way time accrues in layers, like sedimentary soil." —NPR

PRODUCT INFORMATION

• Paperback
• 400 Pages
• Fiction / Literary
• 8 in H | 5.2 in W | 0.9 in T | 0.6 lb