North Woods Summary
Daniel Mason

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North Woods Overview

In Daniel Mason's novel North Woods, a yellow house stands in a clearing in the north woods of Massachusetts. Over the course of three centuries, numerous characters move into and visit the yellow house. As time passes, the house absorbs the lives and stories of its occupants, including a young couple fleeing their colony, an apple enthusiast and his daughters, and a lonely painter desperate for love. Written from multiple points of view, this sweeping epic explores themes including history, entrapment, and longing. 

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