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The Vaster Wilds A Novel

Lauren Groff

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Leah Lippman recommended this book, saying that she loves survival novels and that this book was a reminder of that genre.

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Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wild

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Leah Lippman recommended this book, saying that she loves survival novels and that this book was a reminder of that genre.

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Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wild

Fresh Air

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Fresh Air

Maureen Corrigan reviewed the novel, noting it tells a harrowing escape from Jamestown during the starving time, and highlighted its vivid historical setting.

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Her new novel, The Vaster Wilds, tells a harrowing story of an escape from Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in what later became the U.S.

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Maureen Corrigan reviewed the novel, noting it tells a harrowing escape from Jamestown during the starving time, and highlighted its vivid historical setting.

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Her new novel, The Vaster Wilds, tells a harrowing story of an escape from Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in what later became the U.S.

Lauren Groff has said that Robinson Crusoe is one of the inspirations for her new historical novel, The Vaster Wilds.

The Vaster Wilds is set in the fledgling Jamestown colony around the winter of 1609 to 1610, a period known to historians as the starving time, because over 80% of the colonists died of disease and famine.

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The novel was highlighted as a historical survival story set in early Jamestown, noted for its realistic depiction of the colony's hardships.

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In her new novel called The Vaster Wilds, Lauren Groff, who's been a finalist for the National Book Award three times, tells a harrowing story of an escape from Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

The Vaster Wilds is set in the fledgling Jamestown colony around the winter of 1609 to 1610, a period known to historians as the starving time, because over 80% of the colonists died of disease and famine.

The Vaster Wilds may be more realistic than Robinson Crusoe's fortunate flagging down of a passing ship.

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