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The Wilderness

by Angela Flournoy

Publication: First published 2025
ISBN: 9780063455825, 9780063318786, 9780063318779

NBCC Fiction 2025 (awarded 2026) · Finalist

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Prize history

National Book Award for Fiction
2025

Longlist
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
2025 · awarded 2026

Finalist
Kirkus Prize for Fiction
2025

Finalist

Year-end lists

The New Yorker, best books of 2025 No. 22

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