{"product_id":"wayward-2","title":"Wayward","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWayward\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDana Spiotta\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780593318737\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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\n\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A comic, vital new novel.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Wayward | Dana Spiotta | Hardcover | 9780593318737 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks R 1783054","offer_id":50532317593752,"sku":"1783054","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/611v6xLNpgL.jpg?v=1790353648","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/wayward-2","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}