{"product_id":"country-people-a-gma-book-club-pick","title":"Country People - Daniel Mason Author","description":"\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoyous, absurd, and life-affirming, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCountry People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhysical Info:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2\" H x 9.4\" L x 6.2\" W (1.19 lbs) 320 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43020305891399,"sku":"9798217197453","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/9925\/8439\/files\/9798217197453.jpg?v=1785360851","url":"https:\/\/shopthegreenehouse.com\/products\/country-people-a-gma-book-club-pick","provider":"The GreeneHouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}