![]() There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. Nature.īea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. Margaret Atwood meets Miranda July in this wildly imaginative debut novel of a mother's battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change A prescient and suspenseful book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, Man V. Gripping, fierce, terrifying examination of what people are capable of when they want to survive in both the best and worst ways. ![]() But at its core, The New Wilderness is really about motherhood, and about the world we make (or unmake) for our children.” - Washington Post ![]() “More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced - a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. A Washington Post, NPR, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year ![]()
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