This was a year in which the writers I loved most not only helped me escape the everyday but explored escape as a theme.
"We would have done anything for her," Justine remembers, 30 years later, and this sharp-edged, deliciously dark novel explores just what a group of besotted 12-year-olds might do for a teacher they love-and what Justine does when she learns Mrs. Price isn't everything she thought she was.
A survival story that's also a cosmic adventure and a corrective to colonial 'captivity narratives,' The Vaster Wilds has a lot on its mind, which is what makes it so astonishing that it's also ceaselessly entertaining.
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