{"product_id":"9780593318737","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":"Dana Spiotta","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |  Hardback  |  2021-07-06","offer_id":44151420584191,"sku":"9780593318737","price":36.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_dd3e7d3c-a66c-4fad-b27b-32d4f92ebaec.jpg?v=1636349193","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780593318737","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}