God's Kingdom

A Novel

by Howard Frank Mosher

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Pub Date Oct 06 2015 | Archive Date Oct 06 2015

Description

Howard Frank Mosher is one of America's most acclaimed writers. His fiction set in the world of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom chronicles the intertwining family histories of the natives, wanderers, outcasts, and fugitives--white, Native American, escaped slaves fleeing north, French Canadians, and others--who settled in this remote and beautiful place.

Set in the 1950s, God's Kingdom reveals the Kinneson family through the coming of age of the heir to its rich and complicated history, Jim. Earnest and innocent, Jim is a bright student, a loving son and brother, but also curious about the unspoken "trouble in the family" that haunts his father and grandfather. Layer by layer, tale by tale, sorting out fact from deliberately-obscure legend, Jim explores the Kinnesons' long relationship with others in the Kingdom, culminating in a discovery that forever changes his life and place in that world.

God's Kingdom is the masterful new novel by Howard Frank Mosher--a treat for booksellers, readers, and anyone who enjoys being told a beguiling story.

Howard Frank Mosher is one of America's most acclaimed writers. His fiction set in the world of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom chronicles the intertwining family histories of the natives, wanderers...

A Note From the Publisher

Howard Frank Mosher is the author of twelve previous books, including ten novels and two travel memoirs. He has received Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, the New England Book Award, and the 2011 New England Independent Booksellers Association's President's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. Four of his novels-Northern Borders, Disappearances, Where the River Flows, and A Stranger in the Kingdom-have been made into feature films by the Vermont independent filmmaker Jay Craven. Born in the Catskill Mountains, Mosher has lived in Vermont's fabled Northeast Kingdom, "God's Kingdom," since 1964 with his wife of fifty-one years, Phillis.

Howard Frank Mosher is the author of twelve previous books, including ten novels and two travel memoirs. He has received Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the American...

Advance Praise

This is American fiction at its very best, a rip-roaring story full of hilarity and heartbreak. I finished it feeling better about myself and life in general. God's Kingdom is the good stuff, the very best stuff, honest and emotionally resonant. Don't miss it. —Stephen King

Over the years Mosher's beloved Vermont "Kingdom" has become one of America's most magical literary places. —Richard Russo

He is the rarest thing in literature: an original. Vermont is Mr. Mosher's literary kingdom and he rules it with a bittersweet pen pressed hard to the page. —Howard Norman, author of Next Life Might Be Kinder

Few writers plumb the cords that link fathers and sons with the hope - and humor - of Howard Frank Mosher. He is wistful and wise, and his moral compass is as precise as his immense skills as a storyteller. I cherish my visits to the mythical Kingdom County that once upon a time was Vermont. —Chris Bohjalian, author of The Sandcastle Girls and Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

Ripe with realism, characters are shaped by a land of isolated beauty... a welcome dose of nostalgic realism laced with hard-edged wisdom. —Kirkus

This is American fiction at its very best, a rip-roaring story full of hilarity and heartbreak. I finished it feeling better about myself and life in general. God's Kingdom is the good stuff, the...