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Upstate: A Novel by Wood, James is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Upstate: A Novel about?

Alan Querry, a successful property developer from the north of England, has two daughters: Vanessa, a philosopher who lives and teaches in Saratoga Springs, NY, and Helen, a record company executive based in London. The sisters never quite recovered from their parents’ bitter divorce and the early death of their mother, with Vanessa particularly affected, and plagued by bouts of depression since her teenage years. When she suffers a new crisis, Alan and Helen travel to Saratoga Springs. Over the course of six wintry days in upstate New York, the Querry family begins to struggle with the questions that animate this profound and searching novel: Why do some people find living so much harder than others? Is happiness a skill that can be learned, or a cruel accident of birth? Is reflection helpful to happiness or an obstacle to it? If, as a favourite philosopher of Vanessa’s puts it, ‘the only serious enterprise is living’, how should we live? Rich in subtle human insight, full of poignant and often funny portraits, and vivid with a sense of place, Upstate is a perceptive, intensely moving novel.

Who reads Upstate: A Novel?

Author

Wood, James

Publisher

Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374279530

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (150 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14