Books written by Brad Kessler

  • North: A Novel
    North: A Novel

    Written in Brad Kessler’s sharp, beautiful, and observant prose, and grounded in the author’s own corner of Vermont, where there is a Carthusian monastery, a vibrant community of Somali asylum seekers, and a hole left after a ...

  • Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese
    Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese

    The idea of the poetic herder—the singing cowboy, the flutetooting shepherd boy—has always been a staple of pastoral mythology; and a quick survey of the world's pastoral people does, indeed, reveal an odd penchant for poetry and song: ...

  • Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese
    Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese

    The author, a novelist, describes his life as he and his wife moved to a farm in Vermont, becoming a goatherd and cheesemaker.

  • John Henry
    John Henry

    This is a larger-than-life tale about the African American hero who was born with a hammer in his hand.

  • The Firebird
    The Firebird

    With the aid of his magical Horse of Power, a young archer fulfills the increasingly difficult requests of Tsar Ivan and wins the hand of Princess Vasilissa.

  • Birds in Fall: A Novel
    Birds in Fall: A Novel

    Hauntingly beautiful, this new work by the author of "Lick Creek" is an extraordinarily moving novel about solitude, love, losing one's way, and finding something like home.