FOR FANS OF HISTORICAL FICTION: Imagines the great 19th century Transcendentalist writer, Henry David Thoreau, as a literarycharacter during his early, tumultuous years in Concord, MA, before building his house on Walden Pond, while also bringing to life otherfamous writers in his sphere, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.BOOK CLUB FAVORITE: Evokes with great sensitivity the complicated relationship between an aging father and his adult daughter, arelationship challenged by dark family secrets, tantalizingly revealed through the course of the novel.LYRICAL PROSE: In understated yet precise prose, Furman evokes the great emotion roiling just beneath the surface of hisprotagonist' s cool exterior, recalling the voice of such writers as J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Elizabeth Strout, and Kent Haruf.Evokes the rural settings of both 19th Century Massachusetts and contemporary Maine with tactile intimacy bordering on reverence,while also reckoning with the dire threats these environments faced and face on account of the climate crisis.