{"product_id":"the-wilderness-by-angela-flournoy-book-or-bundle","title":"The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy \/ BOOK OR BUNDLE - Starting at $30!","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/libro.fm\/audiobooks\/9780063318809?bookshop=newbookjoy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e CLICK HERE FOR AN AUDIOBOOK COPY \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBOOK SYNOPSIS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \/ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION \/ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITIC CIRCLES AWARD FOR FICTION \/ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION \/ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year \/ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Barack Obama's \"Favorite Books of the Year\" \/ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best of the Year by The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly, Vogue, Elle, Time, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, Town \u0026amp; Country, Alta Journal, NPR, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Book Riot, Audible\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDesiree, 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 \u003ci\u003ewilderness\u003c\/i\u003e, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood - overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences - swoops in and stays.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e is Angela Flournoy’s masterful and kaleidoscopic follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut \u003ci\u003eThe Turner House\u003c\/i\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRECOMMENDED FOR: Grown-Ups\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eOUR BOOKS ARE LISTED BY AGE GROUP to indicate that the content is engaging and appropriate for those selected ages. 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