01541cam a2200265 4500 1008980619 TxAuBib 20231012120000.0 220831s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022039817 9780593418390 hardcover 0593418395 hardcover TxAuBib Groff, Lauren, author Vaster wilds. The vaster wilds / Lauren Groff. New York : Riverhead Books, 2023. ©2023. 256 pages ; 24 cm. "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" -- Publisher's description. 20231012. Household employees Fiction. Runaway women Fiction. Survival Fiction. Novels. fast