The Wilderness

A Novel

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<p><b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER</b></p><p><b>FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION</b></p><p><b>FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITIC CIRCLES AWARD FOR FICTION</b></p><p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION</b></p><p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE</b></p><p><b>Named one of the <i>Washington Post</i>'s 10 Best Books of the Year</b></p><p><b>One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year"</b></p><p><b>Named a Best of the Year by <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>The Boston Globe</i>, <i>Publishers Weekly,</i> <i>Vogue</i>, <i>Elle</i>, <i>Time</i>,<i> Kirkus Reviews</i>, <i>Electric Literature</i>, <i>Town &amp; Country</i>, <i>Alta Journal</i>, NPR, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Book Riot, Audible</b></p><p><b>"Flournoy has delivered a future classic—the kind of novel that generations to come will read to understand the nuances and peculiarities of this time." — <i>Harper's Bazaar</i></b></p><p><b>An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy.</b></p><p>Desiree, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the <i>wilderness</i>, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood—overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences—swoops in and stays.</p><p>Desiree is estranged from her sister Danielle, and the two nurse bitter family wounds in different ways. January’s got a relationship with a “good” man she feels ambivalent about, even after her surprise pregnancy. Monique, a librarian and aspiring blogger, finds unexpected online fame after calling out the university where she works for its p

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780063318779

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

230 x 162 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. USA