One for the Books: When the land is almost a character

system · September 30, 2026, 9:31am

I recently found several books in which people’s love of the land or the significance of the land makes it feel as if the land itself is practically a character.

“Land” by Maggie O’Farrell is a novel set on a peninsula in Ireland in the late 1800s, more than a decade after “the Great Hunger,” the Irish potato famine that...