Wayward A Novel Dana Spiotta by Dana Spiotta 9780593318744, 0593318749, B08KSSS6H2 instant download after payment.

“Riddled with insights into aging, womanhood, and discontent, Wayward is as elegant as it is raw, & almost as funny as it is sad.” - Philadelphia Inquirer

Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, & at fifty-two she finds herself staring into "the Mids" - that hour of supreme wakefulness between three & 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 unravelling nation. 

When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighbourhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim & flees her suburban life - & her family - as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, & a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. 

"So much contemporary fiction swims about in its own theories; what a pleasure to encounter not just ideas about the thing, but the thing itself - descriptions that irradiate the pleasure centres of the brain, a protagonist so densely, exuberantly imagined, she feels like a visitation." — Parul Sehgal, The New York Times

“Wayward reads like a burning fever dream, powered by hot fury rather than icy remove. There is a mythic quality to her narration, as well as a dark strain of humour... A virtuosic, singular & very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity & purpose in a world gone mad.”  — The New York Times Book Review 

Dana Spiotta's Wayward is a stunning novel about aging, about the female body, & about female complexity in contemporary America. Probing & provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird times, to reforms & resistance & utopian wishes, and to the beauty