About the Book
This year’s One Read selection, Daniel Mason’s “North Woods,” follows an extraordinary succession of inhabitants of a single house in the woods of New England, exploring the many ways we’re connected to our environment and to one another across time, language and space.
Beginning with a young couple fleeing their Puritan colony, the book links the stories of an eccentric apple grower and his spinster daughters, a landscape painter, a clairvoyant, a man with schizophrenia and others. Mason expertly employs a range of literary styles, including letters, pulp journalism and speculative fiction, to tell the story of the United States through the lens of a single location. An epic, ambitious and beautiful book.
About the Author
Daniel Mason is a physician and author of “The Piano Tuner” (2002), “A Far Country” (2007), “The Winter Soldier” (2018), “A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth” (2020) –a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize — and “North Woods” (2023). An assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry, his research and teaching interests include the subjective experience of mental illness and the influence of literature, history and culture on the practice of medicine.
Biographical information and author photo courtesy of https://www.danielmasonbooks.com/.