Points North: Stories

About this book

The final book by one of Americas most treasured writers. Upon his passing in January 2017 Howard Frank Mosher was recognized as one of Americas most acclaimed writers. His fiction set in the world of Vermonts fabled Northeast Kingdom chronicles the intertwining family histories of the natives wanderers outcasts and others who settled in this ethereal place. In its obituary The New York Times wrote Mr. Moshers fictional Kingdom County Vt. became his New England version of Faulkners Yoknapatawpha County. In Points North completed just weeks before his death Mosher presents a brilliant lovingly-evoked collection of stories that center around the Kinneson family ranging over decades of their history in the Kingdom. From a loquacious itinerant preacher who beguiles the reticent farmers and shopkeepers of a small New England town to a proposed dam that threatens the river that Kinneson men have fished for generations the scandalous secret of a romance and its violent consequences and a young mans seemingly fruitless search for lovePoints North is a full-hearted gently-comic and beautifully-written last gift to the readers who treasure Howard Frank Mosher.