{"product_id":"wayward-a-novel-isbn-9780593312490","title":"Wayward: A novel","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Exhilarating ... reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. ","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304153501925,"sku":"NP9780593312490","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593312490.jpg?v=1767743652","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/wayward-a-novel-isbn-9780593312490","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}