North A Novel Suzy Welch to trekking with some of

to trekking with some of the elephants who live at Mandalao

it's the ideal opportunity for them to get what they want

as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction

It's the winter of 1975

and his lethal court games threaten to bring the empire to its knees

North A Novel Suzy Welch to trekking with some ofA powerfully moving novel about the intertwined lives of a Vermont monk, a Somali refugee, and an Afghan war veteran by Brad Kessler, the award winning author of the acclaimed memoir Goat Song. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist for the Vermont Book Award 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