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Women's Wayward : A Novel (Hardcover)
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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. 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 Riddled with insights into aging womanhood and discontent Wayward is as elegant as it is raw and almost as funny as it is sad. --Philadelphia Inquirer A comic vital new novel. --The New Yorker 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.
Women's Wayward : A Novel (Hardcover)
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. 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 Riddled with insights into aging womanhood and discontent Wayward is as elegant as it is raw and almost as funny as it is sad. --Philadelphia Inquirer A comic vital new novel. --The New Yorker 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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