"An unnamed girl, a servant brought against her will to the New World, flees a diseased colony and plunges into the night. Her only hope is to travel hundreds of miles through primeval forest and reach the French hunting grounds in the north. Pursued by her countrymen and wary of the Powhatan, her only thought survival, she forages and hunts her way forward and by abandoning civilization finds a freedom she has only ever dreamed of."
Publisher Riverhead Books
Publication Date 2023-09-12
Section New Hardcover - Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Brad L.
Format Hardcover
ISBN 9780593418390
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated, bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive.
A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief of everything that her own civilization has taught her.
Lauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how—and if—we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.
