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hje_thomas 's review for:
The Vaster Wilds
by Lauren Groff
A story that was both unsettling and beautiful.
A girl escapes her sad/foodless/lack-of-love life and fleas being caught by running into the wilderness. She finds struggle as she learns to find food, find warmpth, find solitary joy. During the whole book, I wanted her to find companionship in her little woodsy life. I respect the joy she found in the wilderness through immense suffering.
“The wind passed, even as it is passing now, over all the people who find themselves so dulled by the concerns of their own bodies and their own hungers that they cannot stop for a moment to feel its goodness as it brushes against them. And feel it now, so soft, so eternal, this wind against your good and living skin.”
A girl escapes her sad/foodless/lack-of-love life and fleas being caught by running into the wilderness. She finds struggle as she learns to find food, find warmpth, find solitary joy. During the whole book, I wanted her to find companionship in her little woodsy life. I respect the joy she found in the wilderness through immense suffering.
“The wind passed, even as it is passing now, over all the people who find themselves so dulled by the concerns of their own bodies and their own hungers that they cannot stop for a moment to feel its goodness as it brushes against them. And feel it now, so soft, so eternal, this wind against your good and living skin.”