{"product_id":"9781770417823","title":"The Northern: A Novel","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eMcArthur Mooney, Jacob\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eECW Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e5\/6\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\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.” — Zoe Whittall, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fake \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Best Kind of People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“W.P. Kinsella has company: Jacob Mooney has written another classic Canadian novel about baseball.” — Ben 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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith a world shaped by the trauma of World War II and the generations of deflated adults and orphaned children left behind by it, \u003ci\u003eThe Northern\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46501973393663,"sku":"9781770417823","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/Jacket_a335adc7-432e-41c2-a118-c89f0f6bd1c0.jpg?v=1758651201","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781770417823","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}