2023 book 151

 Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds

I made a noise sort of like “waaaaaahhh” when I finished this book, it’s very beautiful but also like omg. It’s the story of a teenage servant girl, an English colonist in the 1600s, who flees sickness and starvation and runs into the winter wilderness with a sack full of useful things, her faith, and her intelligence. Now this is a survival story so some parts disturbed my delicate vegetarian sensibilities. And things are often grim, and tense. But it’s still lovely and dreamlike, somehow. But also, grim and tense. Interesting balance there. I am very curious about how people will respond to this. A/A-.

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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released in September.