{"product_id":"country-people","title":"Country People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA “witty and gorgeous” (The Guardian) novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Charming . . . a prescription for summer amusement that takes immediate effect . . . There’s so much fine, freewheeling observation and pillowy erudition here, it’s tempting just to sink in.”—The New York Times \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoyous, absurd, and life-affirming, Country People 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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65347971285341,"sku":"9798217199037","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1084\/1600\/8541\/files\/550x816.jpg?v=1784815024","url":"https:\/\/www.annasbookcafe.nl\/products\/country-people","provider":"Anna's Bookcafé","version":"1.0","type":"link"}