A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated, bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive.

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 thisterra incognitais beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief of everything that her own civilization has taught her.

Lauren Groffs 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 Wildsis 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 howand ifwe can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.