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A “furious & addictive new novel” (The New York Times) about mothers & daughters, & one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life. “Riddled with insights into aging, womanhood, and discontent, Wayward is as elegant as it is raw, & almost as funny as it is sad.” - Philadelphia InquirerSamantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, & at fifty-two she finds herself staring into "the Mids" - that hour of supreme wakefulness between three & four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state of our unravelling nation. When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighbourhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim & flees her suburban life - & her family - as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, & a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. "So much contemporary fiction swims about in its own theories; what a pleasure to encounter not just ideas about the thing, but the thing itself - descriptions that irradiate the pleasure centres of the brain, a protagonist so dense

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Author

Spiotta, Dana

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593318744

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction