{"product_id":"the-wilderness-paperback-1","title":"The Wilderness - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAngela Flournoy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed a most anticipated book by \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Associated Press\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Vogue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e The Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e New York Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e People Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Publishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Kirkus, Literary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Wonderfully ambitious.... Flournoy explores the complexity of friendship, family, and home in a voice that is expansive yet intimate, humorous yet devastating. I loved this book.\" -- Brit Bennett, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Vanishing Half\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesiree, Danielle, 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 \u003cem\u003ewilderness\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\u003cp\u003eDesiree and Danielle, sisters whose shared history has done little to prevent their estrangement, 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\u003cp\u003eAs these friends move from the late 2000's into the late 2020's, 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 American life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wilderness\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            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 9.55 x 5.39 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLarge Print:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44379221983334,"sku":"9780063455825","price":42.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/eBaGGfmM7m9780063455825.webp?v=1768918131","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-wilderness-paperback-1","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}