{"product_id":"the-northern-paperback","title":"The Northern - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacob McArthur Mooney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Northern\u003c\/i\u003e is both a tender-hearted, contemplative coming-of-age novel and adventure-filled road trip story that brings a unique time in sports history to life.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e -- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eZoe Whittall, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fake \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Best Kind of People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"W.P. Kinsella has company: Jacob Mooney has written another classic Canadian novel about baseball.\" -- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Lindbergh, co-host of \u003ci\u003eEffectively Wild \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eThe MVP Machine \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Only Rule Is It Has to Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is the summer of 1952 and three men -- well, one man and two boys -- are on a spiritual and commercial mission. Dispatched from Minnesota to Western Ontario, they have been hired by an upstart Mormon baseball card company to find licensees for their products among the young men filing out Korean War-era rosters in the Northern League, at the bottom-most rung of professional baseball. What the Northern has for them, and the secrets and deceptions they have for each other, will drive their two weeks in Canada into ever-growing chaos. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a vision of early 1950s Ontario that emphasizes accuracy but remains robustly anti-nostalgic and contemporary, the three businessmen have themselves an adventure of personal discovery, interpersonal hardship, and more than a little danger. With a world shaped by the trauma of World War II and the generations of deflated adults and orphaned children left behind by it, the story sets out on a clear-eyed and psychologically precise character study taking on grief, fantasy, adolescence, and family. As the narrator for this story of salesmen and ambitious athletes, 12-year-old Chris is a budding acerbic, able to be carried away by the -- often empty -- hopes of others and put his feet in the ground to stop them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA novel concerned with sports, labor, growing up, and God, \u003ci\u003eThe Northern\u003c\/i\u003e is a funny and heartbreaking book about the series of disappointments that characterize the progress of growing up.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacob McArthur Mooney\u003c\/b\u003e's work has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Trillium Award in Poetry. An MFA graduate from the University of Guelph, he lives in Toronto with his partner, the novelist Alexis von Konigslow, and their son. \u003ci\u003eThe Northern\u003c\/i\u003e is his fifth book and first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264326975737,"sku":"9781770417823","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/bpBCuxQ7xi9781770417823.webp?v=1768828412","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-northern-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}