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Howard Frank Mosher’s The Fall of the Year weaves the lives of Kingdom County’s residents into an autobiographical portrait of rural Vermont. The novel celebrates its fierce independence through the stories of local clergy, a bottle picker, a Chinese herbalist, a mind reader, and a daredevil tomboy, all intersecting around the community’s baseball-playing, trout‑fishing unorthodox priest and his adopted son.
Set against the backdrop of Vermont’s social life and customs, the narrative explores family dynamics, young men’s adventures, and unconventional loves, offering a vivid slice of life in this tight‑knit rural community.
First publish date: 1999
Genre: General Fiction/Autofiction
Authors: Howard Frank Mosher
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