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Gaining Ground
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9780571399888
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
A Lit Hub and Observer Need to Read Novel of the Summer It will stay with me for the rest of my days. A life-changing book --Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital
Unearthed after half a century, this radical portrait of a woman who leaves her family to live alone in a woodland cabin will pierce the heart of anybody who has ever wanted to escape.
I swear I loved them all, and I did the best I could. And then I left them, left all of it.
Abra is a wife and mother living a suburban dream--until one day, she walks away. In a woodland cabin, her new life alone begins. There are no mirrors, no clocks, no memories: just the squirrels breathing in the forest, and the silence of vegetables growing. Years later, a young woman arrives, and the past-flashes begin. Daughter? A strange word. Is this her? And what will this mean?
Gaining Ground, originally published as Abra in North America, is a both a radical meditation on living on your own terms and an exquisite work of art. It calls to anybody who has ever wanted to escape--who has asked what it costs to be wild, to be sane, to be free.
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