Acclaimed author Lauren Groff's new novel, The Vaster Wilds, is about a young girl on the run during Colonial times. But the writer is really questioning — what will it take to survive today?
. It's a tight and tense novel that takes place in 1610 Jamestown — the starving time. The Powhatan people have the colony under siege, and food is scarce. Colonists are hungry, sick, dying, or dead. Groff's protagonist is a girl. She's got so many different names, she might as well have none. She was adopted from an English poor house and taken over to the colony by a well-off family. And now, at the start of the book, she's run away.
was early American captivity narratives. We meet at a library at Johns Hopkins University, where we got to see a few editions of. First published in 1682, it's a firsthand account of Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping, captivity and release by Indigenous people.
Groff says these accounts functionally served as pro-genocidal propaganda. But read deeply into the texts themselves and she says"there are moments of actual humanity."is running, she starts to question everything she's been told about this new world and its supposedly murderous inhabitants — it's back in London where pikes on heads along the bridge were such a common occurrence that nobody seemed to care.
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