Join the Library and Loyalty Bookstores fo r an evening with Angela Flournoy for her new novel The Wilderness\,&n bsp\;long-listed for the National Book Award. In conversation with Ge ne Demby of NPR's Code Switch\, Flournoy will discuss this new \;maste rful and kaleidoscopic follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut \;< em>The Turner House.
\nCopies of the book will be available for sale and signing from Loyalty Bookstores.
\nAn era-defining novel about five Black women over the c ourse of their twenty-year friendship\, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife&mdash\ ;in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Ang ela Flournoy. Desiree\, Danielle\, January\, Monique\, and Nakia are in th eir early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers\, of marriage\, of motherhood\, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Togethe r\, they are finding their way through the \;wilderness\, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood&mdash\;overwhelming\, m ysterious\, and full of freedom and consequences&mdash\;swoops in and stay s. Desiree and Danielle\, sisters whose shared history has done little to prevent their estrangement\, nurse bitter family wounds in different ways. January&rsquo\;s got a relationship with a &ldquo\;good&rdquo\; man she f eels ambivalent about\, even after her surprise pregnancy. Monique\, a lib rarian and aspiring blogger\, finds unexpected online fame after calling o ut the university where she works for its plans to whitewash fraught histo ry. And Nakia is trying to get her restaurant off the ground\, without rel ying on the largesse of her upper middle-class family who wonder aloud if she should be doing something better with her life. As these friends move from the late 2000&rsquo\;s into the late 2020&rsquo\;s\, from young adult s to grown women\, they must figure out what they mean to one another&mdas h\;amid political upheaval\, economic and environmental instability\, and the increasing volatility of modern American life. \;The Wildernes s \;is Angela Flournoy&rsquo\;s masterful and kaleidoscopic follo w-up to her critically acclaimed debut \;The Turner House. A generatio nal talent\, she captures with disarming wit and electric language how the most profound connections over a lifetime can lie in the tangled\, uncert ain thicket of friendship.
\nAngela Flournoy \;is th e author of \;The Turner House\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award\, a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\, a Barnes &\; Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, an Indie Next p ick\, and a \;New York Times \;Notable Book of the Year. Her ficti on has appeared in \;The Paris Review\, and she has written for \; The New York Times\, \;The New Yorker\, \;Los Angeles Times\, \;and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers&rsquo\; Workshop\, Flourno y has taught at the University of Iowa\, Princeton University\, and UCLA. She lives \;in New York.
\nGene Demby is a foun ding member of NPRs \;Code Switch \;team\, where he serves as a ho st of the show's podcast. In 2020\, \;Code Switch \;was named Appl e's inaugural Podcast Of The Year. Demby's essays for \;Code Switch&nb sp\;have also earned him honors for commentary from the Online News Associ ation. Prior to joining NPR\, he served as the managing editor of HuffPost 's \;BlackVoices. He began his professional journalism career at the N ew York Times\, where he served in various roles. Demby hails from Philade lphia and currently resides in Washington\, D.C.
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