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Wayward

Wayward

Spiotta, Dana

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 059331249X
ISBN13: 9780593312490
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jun 21 2022
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A furious and addictive new novel (The New York Times) about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life.

Exhilarating ... reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad. --The New York Times Book Review

Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into the Mids--that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and 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 unraveling nation.

When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life--and her family--as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams.

Dana Spiotta's Wayward is a stunning novel about aging, about the female body, and about female complexity in contemporary America. Probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird times, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes, and to the beauty of ruins.

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