Mason & Dixon

An epic postmodern novel about the English astronomers and surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who tried to solve the border dispute between the British colonies of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia by demarcating the Mason-Dixon Line. “With a team of purveyors, axmen, cooks, and pot menders, they are able, in five years’ time,” writes The New York Times Book Review, “to cut the beautiful, unwavering, and authoritative black slash across the map that divides Pennsylvania from Maryland and West Virginia.”