The Wilderness
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The Wilderness
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Narrated by:
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Aja Naomi King
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Angela Flournoy
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Ashley Nicole Black
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By:
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Angela Flournoy
About this listen
* ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025 *
In 2008, Desiree, 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 of contemporary adulthood–overwhelming, mysterious and full of freedom and consequences–swoops in and stays.
Desiree is estranged from her sister Danielle, and the two nurse bitter family wounds in different ways. January's got a relationship with a 'good' man she feels ambivalent about, even after her surprise pregnancy. Monique, a librarian and aspiring blogger, finds unexpected online fame after calling out the university where she works for its plans to whitewash fraught history. And Nakia is trying to get her restaurant off the ground, without relying 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 transition from young adults to grown women, they must figure out what they mean to one another–amid political upheaval, economic and environmental instability and the increasing volatility of modern life.
©2025 Angela Flournoy (P)2025 W.F. Howes Ltd