{"product_id":"country-people-1","title":"Country People","description":"\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Random House Large Print Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942000230631,"sku":"9798217412334","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_63e1aebe-12d5-4bd6-a2ac-2349b4cad741.jpg?v=1775243280","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/country-people-1","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}