{"product_id":"country-people-preorder","title":"Country People - PREORDER","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePub Date: July 07, 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003ci\u003eNorth Woods\u003c\/i\u003e and one of America's greatest living writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e--Maggie O'Farrell, author of \u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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 faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Mason\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Piano Tuner, The Winter Soldier, A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth--\u003c\/i\u003ea finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--and \u003ci\u003eNorth Woods, \u003c\/i\u003ea \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eTop Ten Book of 2023 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, adapted for opera and the stage, and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is an associate professor in the Stanford University department of psychiatry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Mason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51865736642845,"sku":"9798217197453","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9798217197453.jpg?v=1781205964","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/country-people-preorder","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}