this just-released starred review for Dana Spiotta’s WAYWARD, calling the novel a knockout ― https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-593-31873-7
here is a PW profile of Dana as well ― https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/86225-dana-spiotta-is-finding-her-way.html
We’ve now received the starred Kirkus for WAYWARD as well, calling it “an engrossing, interior mother-daughter story that expands into a sharp social commentary” ― https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dana-spiotta/wayward/
Here is the great New York Times review for WAYWARD, calling the novel “furious and addictive” ― https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/books/review-wayward-dana-spiotta.html
And a really lovely review from Claire Messud in Harper's ― https://harpers.org/archive/2021/07/new-books-july-2021-spiotta-wayward-mairal-woman-from-urugu-sahota-china-roomay/
The novel was also just included in the New York Times’ July Books Preview ― https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/books/july-2021-new-books.html
中文书名:《任性》
英文书名:WAYWARD
作 者:Dana Spiotta
出 版 社:Knopf
代理公司:Melanie Jackson/ANA/Jackie
出版时间:2021年7月
代理地区:中国大陆、台湾
页 数:288页
审读资料:电子稿
类 型:小说
本书版权已授:意大利
内容简介:
出自著有INNOCENTS AND OTHERS和STONE ARABIA的备获盛名的作家笔下,这部感人至深又幽默诙谐的全新小说作品是为琼·迪迪安(Joan Didion),詹妮弗·伊根(Jennifer Egan),唐·德里罗(Don DeLillo)和梅格·沃利兹(Meg Wolitzer)的书迷而准备的,讲述了母亲与女儿,以及一位女性中年自省的故事。
2016年大选之后,萨曼莎·雷蒙德(Samantha Raymond)的生活开始分崩离析:她的母亲病了,十几岁的女儿也和她的关系越来越疏远,52岁的她发现自己正置身“中间世界”—— 在凌晨3点到4点之间那一个小时的极度清醒中,她发现自己在思考母亲、死亡,在这样的状态中是一个正在瓦解的王国。
当她爱上锡拉丘兹(Syracuse)一个贫困社区的一栋漂亮的老房子时,她一时兴起买下了它,逃离了她的郊区生活——以及家庭——在这个分崩离析的王国中她得努力思考如何做一个妻子、母亲和女儿。