John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author of STATION ELEVEN and THE GLASS HOTEL “The New Wilderness is a virtuosic debut, brutal and beautiful in equal measure.” But at its core, The New Wilderness is really about motherhood, and about the world we make (or unmake) for our children.” – Washington Post “More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced - a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. “The novel tackles the deepest of human emotions-as well as big ideas about the planet-in satisfying ways. She explores how our nature is informed by the land we inhabit, how our conception of civility is relative to the circumstances in which we find ourselves.” – Times Literary Supplement (London) It is the anthropological acuity in Cook’s writing that makes it so persuasive.
“The emotional core of the novel-and its true source of brilliance-lies in the relationship between Bea and Agnes, the most intricate and morally arresting relationship Cook has conjured to date.” – Nation John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven “A virtuosic debut, brutal and beautiful in equal measure.” -Emily St. “The environmental novel of our times.” -Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize Judge Washington Post Notable Book of Fiction of 2020 The farther they get from civilization, the more their bond is tested in astonishing and heartbreaking ways.Īt once a blazing lament of our contempt for nature and a deeply humane portrayal of motherhood and what it means to be human, The New Wilderness is an extraordinary novel from a one-of-a-kind literary force. Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, they slowly and painfully learn to survive in an unpredictable, dangerous land, bickering and battling for power and control as they betray and save one another.īut as Agnes embraces the wild freedom of this new existence, Bea realizes that saving her daughter’s life means losing her in a different way. Until now.īea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment to see if humans can exist in nature without destroying it. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. Nature.īea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. Margaret Atwood meets Miranda July in this wildly imaginative debut novel of a mother’s battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change A prescient and suspenseful book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, Man V.
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