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 Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier. With the expansiveness and immersive feeling of two-time Booker Prize nominee David Mitchell's fiction (Cloud Atlas), the wicked creepiness of Edgar Allan Poe, and Mason's bone-deep knowledge of and appreciation for the natural world that's on par with that of Thoreau, North Woods fires on all cylinders. San Francisco Chronicle New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave only to discover that the earth refuse to give up their secrets.