The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
In this highly creative debut book about a mother’s fight to save her daughter in a future destroyed by climate change, Margaret Atwood meets Miranda July; From the author of the bestselling story collection Man V. Nature comes a foreboding and thrilling book.
Agnes, Bea’s five-year-old daughter, is deteriorating slowly as a result of the smog and pollution in the overpopulated metropolis that most people now call home. Agnes will pass away if they remain in the city. The Wilderness State, the remaining expanse of uninhabited, protected terrain, where people have always been prohibited, is the only other option. Before now.
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Bea, Agnes, and eighteen other people voluntarily agree to live in the Wilderness State as test subjects in a study to see whether or not people can coexist with nature without ruining it. They struggle to survive as nomadic hunters and gatherers in a volatile, perilous environment as they quarrel and fight for dominance while betraying and defending one another. Bea, however, comes to the realization that saving her daughter’s life necessitates losing her in a different way as Agnes loves the wild freedom of this new world. Their friendship is put to the ultimate and agonizing test the further they are from civilization.
The New Wilderness is a remarkable novel from a one-of-a-kind creative talent that is simultaneously a searing lament of our disrespect for the environment and a profoundly empathetic portrait of motherhood and what it means to be human. In Diane Cook’s dystopian, almost apocalyptic novel The New Wilderness, human civilization, which is centred in a massive city, is in danger of extinction due to pollution and climate change.
To show that people can coexist with nature without destroying it, a small group of individuals participate in an experiment to live in the last, huge wilderness. become true nomadic hunters and gatherers while being closely watched for any wrongdoings. The first half of the book centres on Bea, who takes her little daughter to the forest on their last hope for survival because the girl is sick with an ailment brought on by air pollution.
The book follows trekkers who have little touch with the crumbling civilization. It is extremely great, horrifying, a study of motherly love, devastating with awful betrayals, and suspenseful. You will see that this is a story without compromises after reading the shocking first few chapters. The book also demonstrates how the young girl gradually develops a greater primal, raw, and natural sensitivity. All of this is written in a much more literary style rather than as a survivalist brochure.
