The Wilderness
Friendship given the weight most novels reserve for marriage: five women, tracked across the long middle of adult life.
Angela Flournoy follows a group of Black women friends across years of adulthood, tracking how intimacy survives ambition, distance and change. A Kirkus Prize finalist, it belongs to the tradition of novels that take friendship as seriously as other books take marriage or war, and finds in it the same capacity for loyalty, injury and slow revision.
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