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Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds

A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. THE VASTER WILDS is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how --- and if --- we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.

Week of September 30, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of September 30th include THE VASTER WILDS, a taut and electrifying novel from Lauren Groff about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive; BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CHRISTMAS by Mary Kay Andrews,   a novella celebrating love and the warm, glittering charm of the holiday season; Ben Fountain's DEVIL MAKES THREE, a brilliant and propulsive novel about greed, power and American complicity set in Haiti; THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF RUDOLF DIESEL, a rich saga from Douglas Brunt that reopens the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors, who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I; and EVERYTHING I LEARNED, I LEARNED IN A CHINESE RESTAURANT, a savory coming-of-age memoir that tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980s Detroit.