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Lauren Groff at the Brattle Theatre
September 19, 2023 @ 6:00 pm
| $32Harvard Book Store welcomes National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author LAUREN GROFF for a discussion of her latest novel The Vaster Wilds.
About The Vaster Wilds:
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 of 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.