02195cam a2200337 i 4500 2805412949 TxAuBib 20260706120000.0 260706s2026||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9798217197453 30.00 TxAuBib rda Mason, Daniel. Country people [Book] : a novel. New York : Random House, 2026. xii, 306 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Miles 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. But 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. The 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. 20260706. Married men Fiction. Legends Fiction. Identity (Psychology) Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Folklore Fiction. Families Fiction. Vermont Fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels. Domestic fiction.