The Vaster Wilds

The Vaster WildsAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, TIME, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, LA TIMES, SLATE, HARPER'S BAZAAR and others Part historical, part horror, part breathless thriller, part wilderness survival tale, The Vaster Wilds is a story about the lengths to which we will go to stay alive."NPR staff pick Lauren Groff just reinvented the adventure novel."Los Angeles Times

storytelling has many traditions

“A glorious book—an assured novel that’s gorgeously told

Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can

adult control and

as Betty says

It's where he was born

In the early 1900s

she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained

They say I’m small

a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come—the complete opposite of sophisticated city-girl Alexis

full of twists and turns like the river at its heart

Lucrezia must now enter an unfamiliar court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed