Book guide
The Vaster Wilds
A servant girl flees into the wilderness, where survival and revelation will shatter everything she has been taught to believe.
Genre and trope pairingsHistoricalResistanceHistoricalClass divideLiterarySelf-discoveryLiteraryIdentity crisisLiterarySocial commentaryAdventureExpeditionAdventureRace against time
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About The Vaster Wilds
A servant girl escapes from a settlement. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief of everything that her own civilization has taught her. The Vaster Wilds is 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 how -and if - we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- death
- cannibalism
- child death
- injury detail
- colonisation
- animal death
- excrement
- violence
- disease
- starvation
- sexual assault
- suicide
- child abuse
- religious trauma
- vomiting
