The New Wilderness
Diane Cook · 2020
A mother takes her sick daughter into the Wilderness State, the last wild land in an overcrowded world, and the novel becomes a brutal, beautiful examination of what we sacrifice and what we owe to the next generation. Cook's debut is one of the decade's most original speculative visions.
The case against
Cook's Community walks, camps, buries someone, and walks again, for four hundred pages. The world outside the Wilderness State stays a vague smudge: the City and its collapse get gestured at, never built. And the cast beyond Bea and Agnes barely resolves into people. Grim attrition is the point; it is also the experience.
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