The God of the Woods

From the author of Long Bright River, a Barack Obama Pick and a New York Times bestseller, comes a once-in-a-generation story; a novel you'll never forget.

Some said it was tragic, what happened to the Van Laars.

Some said the Van Laars deserved it. That they never even thanked the searchers who stayed out for five nights in the freezing forest trying to help find their missing son.

Some said there was a reason it took the family so long to call for help. That they knew what happened to the boy.

Now, fifteen years later, the daughter the family had in their grief has gone missing in the same wilderness as her brother. Some say the two disappearances aren’t connected.

Some say they are.

About the Author

Liz Moore is the author of four novels, most recently the New York Times-bestselling Long Bright River, currently greenlit for a limited series adaptation on Peacock. Long Bright River was selected as a Good Morning America Book Club pick, as one of Barack Obama's favorite novels of 2020, and as a "Best of the Year" book by NPR, Amazon, Apple, The Washington Post, and Goodreads. Moore's novels have been translated into more than 25 languages. The winner of a 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, Moore lives with her family in Philadelphia.

Reviews

“The God of the Woods, like The Secret History, transports readers so deeply into its richly peopled, ominous world that, for hours, everything else falls away.... Breaking free of the spell Moore casts is close to impossible.” —Washington Post

“This expertly paced thriller ... has the kineticism of a well-crafted miniseries.” —The New Yorker
 
“Hugely satisfying.... Moore cleverly guides us through that tangle of trails, to a thrilling and unexpected conclusion.” —Boston Globe

“Liz Moore’s extraordinary new literary suspense novelreminds me of Donna Tartt’s 1992 debut, The Secret History.... [T]he vital connection for me was a reading experience where I was so thoroughly submerged in a rich fictional world, that for hours I barely came up for air.... The precision of Moore’s writing never flags.... Unforgettable.” —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air, NPR

"Her fictional summer camp felt as vivid to me as my own." — The New York Times

"An unusually gratifying reading experience... Three days after you turn the last page, your head is still half in it. It's as if you can smell the pine and wood smoke.... Moore has written an atmospheric family drama, a social novel and the best kind of missing persons story, one that's fun to read and think about.” —Marion Winnik, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Dimensions: 15.1 x 2.7 x 23.4 cm