{"product_id":"9798217197453","title":"Country People [JUL.7]","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEXPECTED RELEASE JULY 7th, 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(184, 13, 46);\"\u003eTHIS IS A PRE-ORDER ITEM; RELEASE DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE\/DELAYS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cb\u003eJO'S PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont), leaving all the comforts of home behind—a rollicking, lyrical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods and one of America’s greatest living writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiles 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 far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be his year to finally move forward with his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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 any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress and a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world’s delusions in a “Inventory of Wrong Ideas.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoyous, absurd, and life-affirming, \u003ci\u003eCountry People\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardcover | 320 pages | 6.12\" x 9.25\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Mason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48071889518824,"sku":"9798217197453x","price":39.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/BNCImageAPI_921b62e0-1532-4453-8726-18aa6b1c5c30.jpg?v=1771607479","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.ca\/products\/9798217197453","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}