RaveThe Irish Times (IRE)Country People charts a year when his more successful wife accepts a visiting professorship in rural Vermont, and the family moves from gluten-free California to the depths of white-bread New England.
There follows a small-town caper fit for a Frank Capra adaptation. But a good one. Over a rewarding, if somewhat rambling 314 pages, Mason explores everything from marital fragility, parenting, misguided ambition, true love and rascally dogs that dig up carpets ... Overall, Mason deftly delivers larks aplenty, poignancy, gentle satire and some top-tier farce. Be warned that the latter may cause you to spontaneously erupt with mirth in public places. This book dispels gloom; go for it.
