North Woods

by Daniel Mason

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.

"This novel is, simply put, the heart and soul of New England. The land lives and breathes through Mason's words, and the personification of both the natural world and history is nothing short of breathtaking. The characters feel unmistakably real, their presence haunting both the novel in residual echoes and the reader's imagination, and his use of narrative, prose, and lyric is creative and masterful. A wonderful, awe-inspiring treasure of a book that made me fall in love all over again with my home and the world. This book will live in me for a very, very long time."

— reviewed by Bethany Marsfelder

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Let us Descend

by Jesmyn Ward

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.

"From the stunning first sentence through the hell of the narrative to the heart-bursting final pages, Let us Descend is a formidable novel and a testament to the author's utterly unique voice. It is told through the experience of Annis, a young enslaved woman in the early 19th century, who is separated from her mother and marched hundreds of miles to a plantation in New Orleans. Every day is its own version of hell yet she manages to tap into what little agency she possesses to survive. A supernatural presence in Annis's journey is as important and real as everything she encounters in the corporeal world. Jesmyn Ward's new novel is a literary event." — reviewed by Stan Hynds

Out 10/24/2023