Beschreibung
'Furious and addictive' New York Times <BR>'Urgent, deeply moving, wholly original' GEORGE SAUNDERS<BR>'A dazzling lightning bolt of a novel' JENNY OFFILL<BR>'Fiercely funny and deliciously subversive' YIYUN LI<BR><BR>'Wayward 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' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<BR><BR>'***** If there's any justice in the world, Spiotta's firecracker of a novel, Wayward, will bring her the attention she very much deserves' Lucy Scholes, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH<BR><BR>Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and she finds herself staring into 'the Mids' - hours of supreme wakefulness when women of a certain age contemplate their lives.
For Sam, this means motherhood, mortality and the state of an unravelling nation. <BR>When Sam falls in love with a decrepit Arts and Crafts house on the wrong side of town, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life, attempting to find beauty in the ruins.<BR><BR> 'One of the most wildly talented writers in America. This is Spiotta's best book yet' GEORGE SAUNDERS<BR> 'A slyly funny, clever and compelling story about the righteous (and rarely irrational) rage of women of a certain age' SARRA MANNING, RED magazine<BR>'A piercing novel about what we lose and gain by when we step out of life's deepest worn grooves' VOGUE<BR>'She writes with sly humour and utter seriousness; a rare articulation of midlife now' CLAIRE MESSUD<BR>'What begins as a vertiginous leap into hilarious rabbit holes ends as a brilliant meditation on mortality and time.
How does she do it? Only Dana Spiotta knows. I'm just happy to see her work her magic' JENNY OFFILL
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