{"product_id":"country-people","title":"Country People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGOOD MORNING AMERICA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBOOK CLUB PICK •\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBESTSELLER • A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont)—a “witty and gorgeous” (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e) novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorth Woods\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Charming . . . a prescription for summer amusement that takes immediate effect . . . There’s so much fine, freewheeling observation and pillowy erudition here, it’s tempting just to sink in.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoyous, absurd, and life-affirming, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCountry People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TYPE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52303955362093,"sku":null,"price":41.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/5053\/7261\/files\/9798217197453.jpg?v=1787168716","url":"https:\/\/thelobbybyheapsestrin.com\/products\/country-people","provider":"The Lobby by Heaps Estrin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}