North Woods

"Ambitious, alive, and lush with generosity, North Woods is an immersive sprint through time. It offers an inventive portrait of the individual and the collective, a vivid history of a cabin and a country, inhabiting each of its characters with a compassion that took my breath away. I emerged from this book as though from an enchanted forest, covered in leaves and changed by what I had seen there. Electrifying."

—Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit Hutch

“North Woods is a monumental achievement of polyphony and humanity. Relating the narrative of an entire country via a single plot of land, it sweeps the reader through hundreds of years and an array of protagonists with a deft, heartbreaking, idiosyncratic zeal. I loved it.”

— Maggie O’Farrell, New York Times bestselling author of Hamnet

“North Woods is the most original and spellbinding novel I’ve read in ages. Mason makes bramble, brush, and orchard come alive with the spirits of its unforgettable former inhabitants. Their lives and passionate loves and their chilling acts of vengeance had me glued to my seat.”

—Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water

“North Woods is a sui generis work of pure brilliance, an epic written with a miniaturist’s precision. Daniel Mason has unearthed, in the centuries-spanning history of a single New England home, a universal story of loss and reclamation. A critic once said, ‘I’d rather watch a novelist fail at jumping over skyscrapers than succeed at jumping over shoeboxes.’ In North Woods, Daniel Mason has discovered the secret to leaping over skyscrapers and sticking the landing. It's the best book I’ve read in ages."

— Anthony Marra, New York Times bestselling author of Mercury Pictures Presents