05231cam a2201045 4500 2636203718 TxAuBib 20251208120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780063318786 0063318784 B0DQLBXPWS Amazon 553220be-9c75-44a0-9e94-07bbff169d7e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11426094 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Flournoy, Angela. The Wilderness [Libby eBook] : A Novel. HarperCollins, 2025. african american gifts for women. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. classical literary criticism. African American Literature. national book award winners. Black History Month books. black history month gifts. african american books. book club gifts ideas. Literary Criticism. a literary journey. not yet published. authors of color. most anticipated. future releases. to be published. summer reading. Literary gifts. the Wilderness. Women Authors. black authors. bipoc authors. on my shelves. Contemporary. Family Saga . family drama. new releases. stand alones. not released. female lead. Coming soon. on my radar. Friendship. Historical. literature. standalone. cover love. unreleased. September. book club. Chick Lit. American. feminist. Literary. priority. sisters. african. winning. backlog. family. novels. litfic. Award. Great. Drama. woman. Radar. maybe. BIPOC. gift‌. read. gift. Best. Top. HTML:NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION "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." — Harper's Bazaar 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. 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 wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood—overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences—swoops in and stays. 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. 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. The Wilderness is Angela Flournoy's masterful and kaleidoscopic follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut The Turner House. 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.. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-12-07 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=553220be-9c75-44a0-9e94-07bbff169d7e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=553220be-9c75-44a0-9e94-07bbff169d7e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)