The Wilderness

NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION ""Flournoy has delivered a future classic—the kind of novel that generations to come will read to understand the nuances and peculiarities of this time."" —  Harper's Bazaar An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy. Desiree Danielle January Monique and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers of marriage of motherhood and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together they are finding their way through the wilderness that period of life when the reality