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Country People by Daniel Mason

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GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A 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 North Woods and one of America’s greatest living writers.

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, bestselling author of North Woods (a New York Times and Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2023), comes a luminous new novel about a family starting over in the Vermont woods.

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About the book:

Miles Krzelewski is twelve years late finishing his PhD on Russian folktales, a devoted father known for outlandish bedtime stories, and the owner of a truffle-hunting dog living in a state with no truffles. When his wife Kate lands a visiting professorship in rural Vermont, he sees his chance to finally turn his life around.

But Miles has, in his wife's words, "a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere." Almost immediately he's swept up by a cast of local characters as strange as anything from his folktales—a ghostly tree surgeon, a scythe-wielding biochemist, a snowflake photographer cataloging the world's wrong ideas on thousands of index cards.

It's all good fun, no PhD required—until Miles stumbles onto a local legend that might not be just a legend after all. Country People is a joyous, life-affirming exploration of marriage, parenthood, belief, and the stories that connect us to each other and to the strange, enchanted places we end up calling home.

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A 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 North Woods and one of America’s greatest living writers.

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, bestselling author of North Woods (a New York Times and Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2023), comes a luminous new novel about a family starting over in the Vermont woods.

Rent new hardcover on Trove: $11.99 - Each rental copy can be rented for 30 days. If you love the book and decide to keep it, the remaining balance applies.

Buy new hardcover on Trove: $30.00

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About the book:

Miles Krzelewski is twelve years late finishing his PhD on Russian folktales, a devoted father known for outlandish bedtime stories, and the owner of a truffle-hunting dog living in a state with no truffles. When his wife Kate lands a visiting professorship in rural Vermont, he sees his chance to finally turn his life around.

But Miles has, in his wife's words, "a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere." Almost immediately he's swept up by a cast of local characters as strange as anything from his folktales—a ghostly tree surgeon, a scythe-wielding biochemist, a snowflake photographer cataloging the world's wrong ideas on thousands of index cards.

It's all good fun, no PhD required—until Miles stumbles onto a local legend that might not be just a legend after all. Country People is a joyous, life-affirming exploration of marriage, parenthood, belief, and the stories that connect us to each other and to the strange, enchanted places we end up calling home.

  • Publisher: Random House

    Title: Country People: A Novel

    Author: Daniel Mason

    On Sale Date: July 7, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9798217197453

    ISBN 10: 9798217197453

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $30.00 USD

    BISAC: Fiction / Literary

    Page Count: 320 pages

    Dimensions: 9.6 in H | 6.4 in W | 1.1 in T

    Weight: 1.2 lb

  • Daniel Mason is the author of The Piano Tuner, The Winter Soldier, and the Pulitzer Prize finalist A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, as well as North Woods, a New York Times and Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2023 and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist that sold over 470,000 copies. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and adapted for opera and the stage, earning him a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the O. Henry Prize. He is an associate professor in Stanford University's department of psychiatry.

  • Pre-release readers are calling it joyful, eccentric, and deeply human:

    • Early readers describe Country People as a story stolen by its supporting cast, especially Giuseppe the truffle-hunting dog—a meandering, joyful presence whose search for something that isn't there says more about the family's own search for purpose than words could.

    • One bookseller called it the novel "the world so desperately needs right now," praising Mason's gift for balancing real depth with real hope in a story that feels like it's set in a more optimistic, more magical version of our own world.

    • Another reader was struck by how Mason makes a novel referencing Milton and Tolstoy feel like such an entertaining read, following Miles's many misadventures with genuine delight rather than literary heaviness.

    • Readers consistently note the book works as both a comedy of errors and a real meditation on storytelling, belief, and where we find paradise—possibly right in our own backyard.

This book is for you if:

  • You loved North Woods and want to return to that same corner of New England, now populated with new characters (and a few hidden easter eggs from the last book).

  • You're drawn to novels that find the magic and mystery hiding in ordinary small-town life.

  • You appreciate family stories told with real warmth and humor, not just hand-wringing seriousness.

  • You want a book that's funny enough to read on the porch and thoughtful enough to stay with you long after.

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