North Woods Careless People is a deeply

Careless People is a deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade--told in a sharp

- An exploration of the different kinds of storytelling in Narnia and The Lord of the Rings

and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all

A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey

North Woods Careless People is a deeplyNATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries "a time spanning, genre blurring work of storytelling magic" (The Washington Post) from the