Hailed as a best book of the year by practically everyone — from NPR to Time to the New York Times Book Review — this must-read is “dazzling” (The Guardian), “enthralling” (The Economist), and “truly triumphant” (Booklist)!

In a lush New England forest stands one secluded house — where disparate inhabitants build lives as centuries of American history unfold.

DANIEL MASON

Is a doctor and author of The Piano Tuner (2002), A Far Country (2007), The Winter Soldier (2018), and A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth (2020), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His work has been translated into 28 languages, adapted for opera and the stage, and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His short stories and essays have been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, a National Magazine Award and an O. Henry Prize. He is an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry. He currently lives in Palo Alto, CA.