{"product_id":"the-wilderness-1","title":"The Wilderness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn era-defining novel about Black womanhood and urban American life following four women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, from young adulthood to midlife, through Obama's presidency to Trump's second term, by two-time National Book Award longlistee Angela Flournoy....\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2008, 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 wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood overwhelming, mysterious and full of freedom and consequences swoops in and stays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesiree 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 plans to whitewash fraught history. And Nakia is trying to get her restaurant off the ground, without relying on the largesse of her upper middle-class family who wonder aloud if she should be doing something better with her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs these friends transition from young adults to grown women, they must figure out what they mean to one another amid political upheaval, economic and environmental instability and the increasing volatility of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wilderness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is Angela Flournoy's masterful and kaleidoscopic follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut \u003cem\u003eThe Turner House\u003c\/em\u003e. A generational talent, she captures with disarming wit and electric language how the most profound connections over a lifetime can lie in the tangled, uncertain thicket of friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Flournoy is singular.' \u003c\/b\u003eRaven Leilani\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wonderfully ambitious... A voice that is expansive yet intimate, humorous yet devastating.' \u003c\/b\u003eBrit Bennett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Flournoy has a long-lens talent, capable of spanning great distances while keeping her characters in crisp, but always compassionate, focus.' \u003c\/b\u003eEleanor Catton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gorgeously written with clear-sighted vision by one of the wisest, most talented authors working today.' \u003c\/b\u003eJustin Torres\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Takes twenty-first-century black womanhood on a wild ride, and just keeps getting wilder. A triumphant whirlwind of a novel.' \u003c\/b\u003eNamwali Serpell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Inhabits a quartet of shifting perspectives with wit, tenderness and exquisite grace... Flournoy's account of the emotional vicissitudes of friendship and its endurance evokes the hushed, disconsolate quality of [Toni] Morrison.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A future classic.\u003c\/strong\u003e' \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Angela Flournoy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53538308161815,"sku":"9780857309525","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/9132\/8279\/files\/9780857309525.jpg?v=1781485468","url":"https:\/\/amplifybookstore.com\/products\/the-wilderness-1","provider":"Amplify Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}