![]() ![]() Can they be part of the wilderness and not destroy it? Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, this new community wanders through the grand country, trying to adhere to the strict rules laid down by the Rangers, whose job it is to remind them they must Leave No Trace. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State as part of a study to see if humans can co-exist with nature. Here forests and desert plains are inhabited solely by wildlife. But across the country lies the Wilderness State, the last swath of open, protected land left. But what can Bea do? No one leaves the City anymore, because there is nowhere else to go. ![]() The smog and pollution of the City-an over-populated, over-built metropolis where most of the population lives-is destroying her lungs. ![]() Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away. Helen Phillips meets Miranda July in this daring and imaginative debut novel that explores a moving mother-daughter relationship in a world ravaged by climate change and overpopulation, a suspenseful second book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, Man V. ![]()
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