{"product_id":"wilderness-16","title":"Wilderness","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2008, 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 \u003cem\u003ewilderness\u003c\/em\u003e, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood - overwhelming, mysterious and full of freedom and consequences - swoops in and stays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesiree 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs these friends transition 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 life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wilderness\u003c\/em\u003e is Angela Flournoy's masterful and kaleidoscopic follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut \u003cem\u003eThe Turner House\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verve Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56414782947672,"sku":"9780857309525","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780857309525_aa64ce38-cb17-4474-99f3-6e1afd7f90a4.jpg?v=1779866143","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/wilderness-16","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}