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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter HellerSeries:Vintage ContemporariesPublish date:12/2/2025Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Large Print PublishingISBN-13:9798217287871UPC:9798217287871Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Family Life, LiterarySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC3XSRPHHD
Peter Heller's masterful coming-of-age tale, the story of a mother and daughter living on a Vermont apple orchard, escaping ghosts of the past.

Hayley and her seven-year-old daughter, Frith, live in a rustic cabin with no electricity in the foothills of Vermont's Green Mountains. A renowned translator of Tang dynasty poetry, Hayley walked away from her career and her addict husband to raise Frith alone in a land populated not by ambition-fueled academics but by hawks, beavers, and other wild things--including their exuberant Bernese Mountain dog, Bear. They get by on what little they earn from their overgrown apple orchard and the syrup they make from their maple trees. Frith-- precocious, homeschooled, and a voracious reader--considers herself queen of this backwoods paradise. She is too young to understand the pain and regret that have followed her mother here.

Season after season, it is the three of them--mother, daughter, and dog--until the spring day when Rose Lattimore appears at their door and upends Hayley and Frith's solitary existence. When tragedy unexpectedly strikes, Frith must come to terms with heartbreak for the very first time. By turns joyful and searing, The Orchard reminds us that, even during the hardest of times, the enduring power of nature, love, and friendship will prevail.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Large Print PublishingISBN-13:9798217287871UPC:9798217287871Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Family Life, LiterarySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC3XSRPHHD
Peter Heller is the national best-selling author of Burn, The Last Ranger, The Guide, The River, Celine, The Painter, and The Dog Stars. The Painter was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the prestigious Reading the West Book Award, and The Dog Stars has been published in twenty-six languages to date. Heller is also the author of four nonfiction books, including Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave, which was awarded the National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Literature. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in poetry and fiction, and he lives in Denver, Colorado.
Publisher: Random House Large Print Publishing

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