{"product_id":"wayward-9780593312490","title":"Wayward","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - \u003cb\u003eA \"furious and addictive new novel\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSamantha 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\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ethat 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eand her family\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eas she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dana Spiotta's \u003ci\u003eWayward\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593312490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.81d","brand":"Dana Spiotta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42077560930485,"sku":"9780593312490","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1f09e1d3-c4d8-4bb2-9b6f-e6dd897c0f09.jpg?v=1650957201","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/wayward-9780593312490","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}