Genre: Book
Grade: A-
Notable People: Howard Frank Mosher
Title: Points North
| Review: the critically acclaimed final work of beloved Vermont fiction by Howard Frank Mosher, who died in 2017. Mosher continues his 30 year, 14 book odyssey exploring the story of centuries of the Kinneson family of Vermont’s loosely disguised remote Northeast Kingdom fictionally, Kingdom County). The setting, which has often been the focus of Mosher’s four-decade-long career, is brought up to the 21st Century. Through a series of stories rooted in Northern Vermont, Mosher captures the essence of rural America with dead eye commentary, subtle observations on people and relationships and a masterful dry wit. I periodically pick up one of these book at the library and always become immediately entwined in his fabled Kingdom community and its irreverent characters. Vermont’s fiction laureate in my book. |