NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST
TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD A sweeping novel
about a single house in the woods of New England told through the lives of those who inhabit
it across the centuries—a time-spanning genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The
Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter
Soldier.With the expansiveness and immersive feeling of two-time Booker Prize nominee David
Mitchell’s fiction (Cloud Atlas) the wicked creepiness of Edgar Allan Poe and Mason’s
bone-deep knowledge of and appreciation for the natural world that’s on par with that of
Thoreau North Woods fires on all cylinders.”—San Francisco Chronicle New York Times Book
Review Editors’ Choice • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time The Boston Globe NPR Chicago Public
Library The Star Tribune The Economist The Christian Science Monitor Real Simple Kirkus
Reviews Publishers Weekly Library Journal Bookreporter 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 refuse to give up their 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. This magisterial and highly inventive novel from Pulitzer
Prize finalist Daniel Mason brims with love and madness humor and hope. Following the cycles
of history nature and even language North Woods shows the myriad magical ways in which
we’re connected to our environment to history and to one another. It is not just an
unforgettable novel about secrets and destinies but a way of looking at the world that asks
the timeless question: How do we live on even after we’re gone?
