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Title: Wayward

Author: Dana Spiotta

ISBN: 9780593312490

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2022

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Illustrated

Condition Note: New from the publisher

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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. “Exhilarating … reads like a burning fever dream. 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 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 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 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.