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The New Wilderness : a Novel by Diane Cook; Recorded Books, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF FICTION OF 2020NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE"THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR TIMES" —Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize Judge"A virtuosic debut, brutal and beautiful in equal measure." —Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author of Station ElevenMargaret Atwood meets Miranda July in this wildly imaginative debut novel of a mother's battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change; A prescient and suspenseful book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, Man V. Nature. Bea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Until now. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment to see if humans can exist in nature without destroying it. Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, they slowly and painfully learn to survive in an un
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- Author
- Diane Cook; Recorded Books, Inc
- Publisher
- Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062333155
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction