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Andrew J. Graff, the author of the 2021 novel “Raft of Stars,” returns with “True North” (Ecco/HarperCollins), a family drama about a schoolteacher’s scheme to save his marriage by buying a run-down rafting company and uprooting his family to Wisconsin’s Northwoods.
Read an excerpt below.
“True North” by Andrew J. Graff
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They were halfway there. Their new home in the woods. Sam Brecht pulled the brand-new twenty-three-foot Winnebago Brave to the gravel shoulder of County Road A. Darren needed to pee. Sam stepped out into the long grass with his son and took a deep breath. Even the ditches up here smelled the way ditches should, just the way he remembered them smelling, sweet and sandy, with pine in the air. There were pines all over this far north, white pine and jack pine and spruce bordering leaning barbed-wire fences, abandoned cow pastures Sam knew would fill with goldenrod and Queen Anne’s lace by summer’s end. The setting sun made a perfect orange-and-purple sky behind all that fresh northern pine. The sun would rise over it too. New horizons.