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 PrizeFinalist for the Vermont Book AwardAs a late spring blizzard brews, Brother Christopher, a cloistered monk at Blue Mountain Monastery in Vermont, ru...

A Vermont Christmas tree farmer learns a valuable lesson on a visit to New York City in this touching holiday story featuring stunning photographs."A modern holiday story set apart from the sentimental pack by Brad Kessler's fine prose and Dona Ann McAdams's beautiful black-and-white photos." — Publishers WeeklyFor one family in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood, the Christmas season begins with the arrival of ...

A profound literary novel set in Nova Scotia, Brad Kessler’s Birds in Fall explores grief, healing, and community through the intertwined stories of families, loss, and the natural world.One fall night, an innkeeper on a remote island in Nova Scotia watches in horror as an airplane plummets to the sea—a tragedy that will forever change the island’s quiet rhythm. As the search for survivors envelops the island, the mourning families gather at the inn, waiti...

Acclaimed novelist Brad Kessler lived in New York City but longed for a life on the land where he could grow his own food. After years of searching for a home, he and his wife, photographer Dona Ann McAdams, found a mountain farmhouse on a dead-end road, with seventy-five acres of land. One day, when Dona returned home with fresh goat milk from a neighbor's farm, Kessler made a fresh chèvre, and their life changed forever. They decided to raise dairy goats and make cheese....

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 SongAs a late spring blizzard brews, Father 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 storm. When snow brings a young Somali refugee, Sahro Abdi Muse, to the monastery, Christopher is pulled back into the worl...