{"product_id":"country-people-a-gma-book-club-pick-a-novel","title":"Country People: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis title is part of our Wild Bloom Collection. 50% of the sale price goes directly to our partners at Inclusion NWT.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__overview-column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGOOD MORNING AMERICA\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK CLUB PICK • \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER • A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont)—a “witty and gorgeous” (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e) novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNorth Woods\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Charming . . . There’s so much fine, freewheeling observation and pillowy erudition here, it’s tempting just to sink in.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__overview-column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Daniel Mason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50590256529605,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/1_dd92958c-d9e2-421f-9f70-3c299c145ce7_842x_jpg.webp?v=1793283161","url":"https:\/\/www.bloominsallysusedbooks.com\/products\/country-people-a-gma-book-club-pick-a-novel","provider":"Bloomin’ Sally’s Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}