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In the novel The Wilderness | Desiree, Janori, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties, navigating their careers, marriage, motherhood, and big-city life in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they navigate their way through this stage of _life_, the period in which the realities of contemporary adulthood - exhausting, ambiguous, full of freedom and consequences - overtake them and settle into their lives. Desiree is at odds with her sister, Danielle, and both are healing painful family wounds in their own ways. January is in a relationship with a "good" man, towards whom she has mixed feelings, even after her sudden pregnancy. Monique, an aspiring librarian and blogger, finds unexpected fame on the Internet after she criticizes the university she works at over plans to falsify controversial history. As for Nakia, she is trying to launch her own restaurant, without relying on the generosity of her upper-middle-class family who wonder aloud whether she should be doing something better with her life. As these friends move from the late 2000s to the late 2010s, from young women to mature women, they must discover what they mean to each other—amid political turmoil, economic and environmental instability, and the increasing volatility of modern American life. _The Wilderness_ is Angela Flournoy's masterful and diverse work of fiction, which follows her critically acclaimed debut novel _The Turner House_. She is a remarkable talent who, with her masterful style and captivating language, captures how the deepest bonds of a lifetime can lie in the tangled and uncertain maze of friendship.