AN 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 “
Glorious…surroundings come alive in prose that lives and breathes upon the page." — Boston
Globe A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff about
one spirited girl alone in the wilderness trying to survive 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. Lauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling
adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world
succumbing to the churn of colonialism. 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.