I listened to this on audio book and completely fell in love with it, and as soon as I'd finished listening I immediately bought the physical hardback so I can keep it on my shelves forever. A definite top ten read of the year. Beginning in the 1760s, the novel starts with a couple fleeing a community to exist on their own as lovers in a cabin in the woods of New Hampshire. And from there we meet the occupants of the cabin - which is developed to a house - through the ages and even into the future. We meet an apple farmer and his two daughters who die in extraordinary ways; a man hunting for a slave; the doctor of a man with schizophrenia who lives in the house; and after his death his sister who finds his videos of the woods with titles that relate to those who have lived there before; a closeted painter in love with a poet; a young biologist, and many more. The most perfect snippets of human life and the nature that surrounds them and how all histories leach into each other, leaving traces behind. I was sad to say goodbye to every character. Thanks to [a:Judith Heneghan|948767|Judith Heneghan|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] for the recommendation.