{"product_id":"waywardbooks","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eA virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” \u003ci\u003e—The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Riddled with insights into aging, womanhood, and discontent, \u003ci\u003eWayward\u003c\/i\u003e is as elegant as it is raw, and almost as funny as it is sad.” \u003ci\u003e—Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A comic, vital new novel.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Spiotta, Dana","offers":[{"title":"Hardback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44165170004192,"sku":"","price":21.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f88fd5a4-dcab-46e4-b3d2-cc912458ae24.jpg?v=1693597262","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/waywardbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}