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Flournoy, Angela.
The Wilderness
[Libby Audiobook] :
A Novel.
HarperCollins,
2025.
Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 334MB.
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HTML:<p><b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER</b></p> <p><b>FINALIST FOR THE 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION</b></p> <p><b>LONGLISTED FOR 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION</b></p> <p><b>"Flournoy has delivered a future classic—the kind of novel that generations to come will read to understand the nuances and peculiarities of this time." — <i>Harper's Bazaar</i></b></p> <p><b>An 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.</b></p> <p>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 <i>wilderness</i>, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood—overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences—swoops in and stays.</p> <p>Desiree 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.</p> <p>As 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.</p> <p><i>The Wilderness</i> is Angela Flournoy's masterful and kaleidoscopic follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut <i>The Turner House</i>. 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.</p>.
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Fiction.
Media Type: Audiobook.
Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-12-07 20:00:03.
King, Aja Naomi.
Black, Ashley Nicole.
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