Editor's note: For four Sundays in September, Karena Tse of Daniel Boone Regional Library will explore a different aspect of this year's One Read title, "North Woods" by Daniel Mason. Columns may include spoilers.

“All nature is doing her best each moment to make us well — she exists for no other end,” Henry David Thoreau wrote in an 1853 diary entry. “Do not resist her. With the least inclination to be well we should not be sick.”

The healing and redemptive powers of nature underlie the motivations of many characters in Daniel Mason’s “North Woods.” Our two lovers who open the novel with their ecstatic escape find themselves embraced by the wild, infatuated with abundance and the shimmering promise of “more fish than river. More bird than sky. A thousand angels on a blade of grass.”

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