North : a novel / Brad Kessler.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : The Overlook Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 280 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781419750427
- 1419750429
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | KESSLER, BRAD | Available | 33111010741490 | ||||
Adult Book | Northport Library | Fiction | KESSLER, BRAD | Available | 33111009860236 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Award-winning author Brad Kessler's North is a powerfully moving novel about the intertwined lives of a Vermont monk, a Somali refugee, and an Afghan war veteran by the author of the acclaimed memoir Goat Song .
Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Finalist for the Vermont Book Award
As a late spring blizzard brews, Brother Christopher, a cloistered monk at Blue Mountain Monastery in Vermont, rushes to tend to his Ida Red and Northern Spy apple trees in advance of the unseasonal snowstorm. When the storm lands a young Somali refugee, Sahro Abdi Muse, at the monastery, Christopher is pulled back into the world as his life intersects with Sahro's and that of an Afghan war veteran in surprising and revealing ways.
North traces the epic journey of Sahro from her home in Somalia to South America, along the migrant route through Central America and Mexico, to New York City, and finally, her dangerous attempt to continue north to safety in Canada. It also compellingly traces the inner journeys of Brother Christopher, questioning his future in a world where the monastery way of life is waning, and of veteran Teddy Fletcher, seeking a way to make peace with his past.
Written in Brad Kessler's sharp, beautiful, and observant prose, and grounded in the author's own corner of Vermont, where there is a Carthusian monastery, a vibrant community of Somali asylum seekers, and a hole left after a disproportionate number of Vermont soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, North gives voice to these invisible communities, delivering a story of human connection in a time of displacement.
"A beautiful and moving tale, Kessler's North is tender, dazzling, and wise." --Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard
"As a late spring blizzard brews, Brother Christopher, a cloistered monk at Blue Mountain Monastery in Vermont, rushes to tend to his Ida Red and Northern Spy apple trees in advance of the unseasonal snowstorm. When the storm lands a young Somali refugee, Sahro Abdi Muse, at the monastery, Christopher is pulled back into the world as his life intersects with Sahro's and that of an Afghan war veteran in surprising and revealing ways"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278).