Northern forest. Mason D.

Daniel Mason’s novel, whose action covers four centuries, is a narrative about one house lost in the forests of the Western Massachusetts, and about the series of its inhabitants. Lovers who fled from the Puritan settlement; a young colonist with a child, stolen by the Indians; a former soldier who devoted himself to growing apple trees; Twin sisters, inextricably linked by love and jealousy; The artist protecting the secret; An avid hunter, whose wife seems to be voices (or still does not seem?),-and many, many others. When one story ends, another begins, and this continuity echoes the cyclicity of nature, with the change of seasons and ecosystems.

Trees and plants are full-fledged characters of the novel, and the experiences of the beetle are no less important than human ones. This is an unusual, inventively built, full of humor and hoping novel about the course of time, about our connection with the world and how to see the history of changes in the history of losses.