One house. Centuries of love, ruin, ghosts, and growing things. This is a lyrical, time-bending novel about the land we live on and everything we leave...

One house. Centuries of love, ruin, ghosts, and growing things. This is a lyrical, time-bending novel about the land we live on and everything we leave behind.

It begins with two lovers fleeing society and ends… centuries later. In between: witches and orchard-keepers, soldiers and shut-ins, poets and prisoners. All of them pass through a single house deep in the New England woods. Each life marking the land, and each touched by those who came before.

Daniel Mason’s North Woods is a hypnotic, time-spanning novel about history, memory, and nature’s quiet persistence. Told through shifting forms: letters, court transcripts, ghost stories, it’s a masterwork of imagination that evokes both the fragility and resilience of life.

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📗 In The Mood For…

Feeling Grounded
Nature is not just a setting—it’s the story’s soul.
✅ Deep attention to seasons, landscape, and growth
✅ Invites presence through lyrical observation

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📘 Stories About…

Time & Memory
Centuries pass, but the land remembers.
✅ Nonlinear structure with echoing lives and stories
✅ Explores how time accumulates, fades, and returns

Life & Death
Every chapter a birth or an ending.
✅ Tracks generations through illness, love, survival
✅ Mortality is the rhythm beneath the prose

Nature & the Wild
The woods witness everything and sometimes intervene.
✅ Ecological beauty and decay as narrative forces
✅ Blurs the line between the human and the wild