North : a novel /
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, Christophe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Overlook Press,
[2021].
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 280 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278). |
| ISBN: | 9781419750427 1419750429 |