Daniel Mason · 2023 · overland

Daniel Mason's 2023 novel tells the story of a single house in the woods of western Massachusetts across four centuries, and the many lives, human and otherwise, that pass through it. The route runs from the Puritan colony its first lovers flee, to the house in the hills, and on toward the vanishing forests of the north.

1. 1
   Springfield

   A pair of young lovers cast off the strict Puritan world of the colony and flee north into the wild to build a life of their own.

2. 2
   The North Woods

   In a clearing in the western Massachusetts hills stands a yellow house that four centuries of lives pass through: an apple grower, twin sisters, a painter, a conjuror, and the ghosts who never quite leave.

3. 3
   The North

   As the forests fall and the wild retreats ever northward toward the last unbroken woods, the land keeps its long memory of everyone who came before.