BlueSkyFriday’s September Book of the Month is North Woods by Daniel Mason.
The North Woods is a beautiful, original, and memorable novel with shades of The Overstory by Richard Powers. In the 16th century, a puritan couple run away together and build a cottage in a remote Massachusetts forest. From there, we follow the house over centuries, through a series of inhabitants, from an English soldier who grows an apple orchard, to a lovelorn painter.
A novel with the quality of a spell, this mesmeric tale from the award-winning author of The Piano Tuner takes a single house in the woods of Massachusetts and those who inhabit it across four centuries to explore the countless ways in which the past lives on in nature, memory, language and the human heart.
Buy your copy here.
September, 2024
