‘Furious and addictive’ New York Times<\/i> <\/b>
‘Urgent, deeply moving, wholly original’ GEORGE SAUNDERS<\/b>
‘A dazzling lightning bolt of a novel’ JENNY OFFILL<\/b>
‘Fiercely funny and deliciously subversive’ YIYUN LI<\/b><\/p>\n
‘Wayward<\/i> 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’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<\/i><\/b>
‘***** If there’s any justice in the world, Spiotta’s firecracker of a novel, Wayward<\/i>, will bring her the attention she very much deserves’ Lucy Scholes, <\/b>SUNDAY TELEGRAPH<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n
Samantha Raymond’s life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and she finds herself staring into ‘the Mids’ – hours of supreme wakefulness when women of a certain age contemplate their lives. For Sam, this means motherhood, mortality and the state of an unravelling nation.
When Sam falls in love with a decrepit Arts and Crafts house on the wrong side of town, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life, attempting to find beauty in the ruins.<\/p>\n
‘One of the most wildly talented writers in America. This is Spiotta’s best book yet’ GEORGE SAUNDERS<\/b>
‘A slyly funny, clever and compelling story about the righteous (and rarely irrational) rage of women of a certain age’ SARRA MANNING, RED magazine<\/i><\/b>
‘A piercing novel about what we lose and gain by when we step out of life’s deepest worn grooves’ VOGUE<\/i><\/b>
‘She writes with sly humour and utter seriousness; a rare articulation of midlife now’ CLAIRE MESSUD<\/b>
‘What begins as a vertiginous leap into hilarious rabbit holes ends as a brilliant meditation on mortality and time. How does she do it? Only Dana Spiotta knows. I’m just happy to see her work her magic’ JENNY OFFILL<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the heels of the election of 2016, Samantha Raymond’s life begins to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into ‘the Mids’ – that 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 an unravelling nation. When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighbourhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life – and her family – as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother and a daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68],"product_tag":[127],"class_list":{"0":"post-92880","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-general-fiction","6":"product_tag-modern-contemporary-fiction-post-c-1945","7":"pa_book_author-spiotta-dana","8":"pa_cover-paperback","9":"pa_dewey-813-6-edition23","10":"pa_edition-1st-paperback-ed","11":"pa_imprint-virago","12":"pa_language-english","13":"pa_pages-8341","14":"pa_publisher-virago","15":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","17":"first","18":"onbackorder","19":"taxable","20":"shipping-taxable","21":"purchasable","22":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n