Country People: A GMA Book Club Pick
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ISBN13: 9798217510160
Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group
Published: Jul 21 2026
Weight: 0.39
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.80 Depth: 5.60
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group
Published: Jul 21 2026
Weight: 0.39
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.80 Depth: 5.60
Language: English
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont)--a witty and gorgeous (The Guardian) novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods Charming ... a prescription for summer amusement that takes immediate effect ... There's so much fine, freewheeling observation and pillowy erudition here, it's tempting just to sink in.--The New York Times Miles 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 faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life. But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, one 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 those of any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, from a Shakespearean temptress to a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world's delusions in an Inventory of Wrong Ideas. The new friends, the enchanted woods, the histories: sure, no PhD, but all good fun. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarre--perhaps ridiculous--local legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all. Joyous, absurd, and life-affirming, Country People is a luminous exploration of marriage and parenthood, the nature of belief and the power of stories, and the ways in which we find connection in an increasingly fragmented world.
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