The Vaster Wilds

I don’t know what to say about this. It turned the 17th century inside out for me: what if the colonists weren’t so imbued with the entire ideology of early modern England? I loved the slow shift of the girl from her restricted world into the new wilderness she comes to love and how it shifts everything she knows.

A simple story of survival in the early colonial American wilderness gracefully deepens into poetic meditations on nature, geography, guilt, death, history, and culture.