Country People - Daniel Mason

‘Told with warmth and wit, Mason’s prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people’ Lucy Steeds, author of The Artist‘A charming, funny, exhilarating Vermont adventure’ Clare Fuller, author of Swimming Lessons‘Full of joy - and exactly the kind of reading experience we could all do with right now. The book of the summer’ Mick Herron, author of Slow HorsesA year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown-a rollicking, lyrical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods and one of America’s greatest living writersMiles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales, and increasingly haunted by a sense that he’s become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be his year to finally move forward with his life.But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, who possesses, in Kate’s words, ‘a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere.’ And no sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress and a photogra
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