{"product_id":"adult-fiction-book-club-country-people-august-27th-6-30pm","title":"Adult Fiction Book Club: Country People August 27th 6:30pm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo join book club, we ask that you purchase the book from us or make a comparable donation\/purchase.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHIS BOOK CLUB MEETS IN PERSON AT THE SHOP. Thursday, August 27th 6:30pm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin us for the next Adult Fiction Book Club meetup where we'll discuss Country People by Daniel Mason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGOOD MORNING AMERICA\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNorth Woods\u003c\/i\u003e and one of America's greatest living writers.\u003c\/b\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\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","brand":"Daniel Mason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51999140053277,"sku":"9798217197453","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/FictionBookClub.png?v=1783622229","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/adult-fiction-book-club-country-people-august-27th-6-30pm","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}