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The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

The Vaster Wilds

A Novel

by Lauren Groff

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  • Sep 2023, 272 pages
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Cathryn Conroy

A Daring Literary Achievement: No Plot, One Character, a Very Sad Ending…and I Couldn't Stop Reading
I will confess right from the get-go that Lauren Groff is one of my favorite authors. If she writes it, I read it. That said, while I am in awe of the literary power of this book, it is not for everyone.

There is no plot. There is only one character, and she doesn't have a name other than "Girl," although she is sometimes called Lamentations Callat, Wench, or Zed. Much of the narrative reads and feels like a fever dream. And the ending is sad…so very, very sad.

It's the early 1600s. Girl, who is about 16 or 17 years old, flees in the middle of a frigid winter night from an early colonial American settlement,more
Gloria M

Compelling!!
This is the first book I have read by bestselling author Lauren Groff.  In my defense I have multiple long lists and piles of fiction that I want to consume, and I only have so much time-one has to eat and sleep and do laundry!.  But after being unable to put down her latest, "The Vaster Wilds" I am so looking forward to perusing her older novels!

Groff writes with a deft, inventive, emotional hand.  The reader will feel cold, colder than imaginable.  Hunger will settle and take up permanent, painful residence  in your stomach.  The sort of hunger that consumes your everymore
Barbara

Surviving the Wild
The girl had no name. She was a teenager, hired to be a caregiver for the child Bess as the family journeyed to America with the ill-fated Jamestown colonists. Could the girl survive the vaster wilds? The colonists were diseased and starving, so immediately following a murder, the girl fled the colony with only a few crude items to keep her alive. However, she had resourcefulness and that proved to be her most valuable possession.

The novel slowly shifted from the girl’s perilous escape to her thoughts and pondering. Her deep thoughts included her past life, her love for the child Bess, religion, selfishness andmore
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