THE WILDERNESS with Angela Flournoy - January 28

Part of our Voices of Today Series

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” -Mark Twain

Angela Flournoy’s The Wilderness follows five Black women—Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia—over two transformative decades as they navigate the messy, often contradictory demands of adulthood, family, ambition, and friendship. Set between New York and Los Angeles from the late 2000s through the 2020s, this much-anticipated second novel from the National Book Award finalist is a sharp, vibrant portrait of connection and change in an increasingly unstable world.

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The Voices of Today Series invites some of the most celebrated and diverse voices in contemporary literature to engage with our audience.

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About the Author:

Angela Flournoy is the author of The Turner House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, an Indie Next pick, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, and she has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Flournoy has taught at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, and UCLA.

About the Moderator:

Sophfronia Scott has published six books and her essays, short stories, and her articles have appeared in numerous publications. She began her career as an award-winning magazine journalist for Time. Sophfronia is the founding director of Alma College’s MFA in Creative Writing, a low-residency graduate program based in Alma, Michigan. She holds a BA in English from Harvard and an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Sophfronia is a PhD in Creative Writing candidate at Bath Spa University.