A work of storytelling magic by Daniel Mason is about an ancient farmhouse in western Massachusetts.
,” was published more than 20 years ago while he was in medical school. He’s since won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, along with a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Prize and a National Magazine Award. In 2021, his first collection of short stories, “And yet Mason somehow still feels always about to break out.
The novel begins some 400 years ago with two naughty Pilgrims fleeing their settlement and hiding from soldiers sent out to drag them home. “They were Nature’s wards now,” Mason writes. “Barefoot they ran through the forest … to the north woods.” They dare to marry themselves in the hollow of an old oak and swim naked in the brook.
The Earth turns, the apple crops swell and falter, the yellow house gives shelter to new residents, and “North Woods” keeps forming and reforming this tableau of a place that abides. As the decades pass, some mysteries are solved, while some tragedies grow more mysterious. The only constants are the land and Mason’s genius. As the chapters proceed, a story of sibling devotion slips into gothic trauma worthy of Flannery O’Connor.
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