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WAYWARD
FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF INNOCENTS AND OTHERS AND STONE ARABIA, a moving and
humorous new novel for readers of Joan Didion, Jennifer Egan, Don DeLillo and Meg Wolitzer, about mothers
and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning.
humorous new novel for readers of Joan Didion, Jennifer Egan, Don DeLillo and Meg Wolitzer, about mothers
and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning.
On the heels of the election of 2016, Samantha Raymond's life begins to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at 52, 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 an 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 is the author of INNOCENTS AND OTHERS, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and The St. Francis College Literary Prize; STONE ARABIA, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; EAT THE DOCUMENT, a finalist for the National Book Award; and LIGHTNING FIELD. A Guggenheim Fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, she was also awarded the 2008 Rome Prize in Literature and the 2017 John Updike Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Syracuse and teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program.
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 is the author of INNOCENTS AND OTHERS, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and The St. Francis College Literary Prize; STONE ARABIA, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; EAT THE DOCUMENT, a finalist for the National Book Award; and LIGHTNING FIELD. A Guggenheim Fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, she was also awarded the 2008 Rome Prize in Literature and the 2017 John Updike Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Syracuse and teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program.
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Published 2021-07-01 by Knopf |