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The Wilderwomen

A Novel

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"Narrator Anna Caputo draws listeners into Lang's novel immediately, suggesting that this story has more depth than the plot at first might lead one to believe."- AudioFile

"Exquisitely drawn characters imbue Lang's unconventional plot with verisimilitude and heart, inspiring readers to ponder whether the world is stranger and more beautiful than it appears. Effervescent, ethereal, and suffused with wonder." — Kirkus (starred review)
"Lang's melancholy, atmospheric writing sets the perfect tone as the Wilder sisters unravel the mystery. The result is a cozy supernatural outing perfect for an autumn night." —Publisher's Weekly


Ohioana Book Award finalist Ruth Emmie Lang returns with a new cast of ordinary characters with extraordinary abilities in The Wilderwomen.

Five years ago, Nora Wilder disappeared. The older of her two daughters, Zadie, should have seen it coming, because she can literally see things coming. But not even her psychic abilities were able to prevent their mother from vanishing one morning.
Zadie's estranged younger sister, Finn, can't see into the future, but she has an uncannily good memory, so good that she remembers not only her own memories, but the echoes of memories other people have left behind. On the afternoon of her graduation party, Finn is seized by an "echo" more powerful than anything she's experienced before: a woman singing a song she recognizes, a song about a bird...
When Finn wakes up alone in an aviary with no idea of how she got there, she realizes who the memory belongs to: Nora.
Now, it's up to Finn to convince her sister that not only is their mom still out there, but that she wants to be found. Against Zadie's better judgement, she and Finn hit the highway, using Finn's echoes to retrace Nora's footsteps and uncover the answer to the question that has been haunting them for years: Why did she leave?
But the more time Finn spends in their mother's past, the harder it is for her to return to the present, to return to herself. As Zadie feels her sister start to slip away, she will have to decide what lengths she is willing to go to find their mother, knowing that if she chooses wrong, she could lose them both for good.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 5, 2022
      Two supernatural sisters uncover their curious past while searching for their missing mother in this moody outing from Lang (Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance). When enigmatic Nora Wilder vanished in the middle of the night before the start of the book, she abandoned her two young daughters. Five years later, young adult Zadie navigates life on her own, while her little sister, Finn, lives with a foster family. Though they’ve drifted apart, the sisters are bonded by secrets only they know: Zadie is a psychic, and Finn can enter other people’s memories. When Zadie receives a strange premonition on the same day that Finn stumbles into Nora’s memory for the first time, the sisters embark on a quest to retrace their mother’s footsteps in hopes of finding her. But the path to locating Nora is more winding than either anticipate, with clues leading them from Texas to Washington, and each increasingly haunting memory they uncover leads to more questions than answers about their mother’s mysterious past. Lang’s melancholy, atmospheric writing sets the perfect tone as the Wilder sisters unravel the mystery. The result is a cozy supernatural outing perfect for an autumn night.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Anna Caputo draws listeners into Lang's novel immediately, suggesting that this story has more depth than the plot at first might lead one to believe. With the magical realism and psychic phenomena infused into the plot, the narration will have listeners eagerly anticipating what will happen next. In present-day Chile, sisters Zadie and Finn set out on a trip to locate their mother, who disappeared five years earlier. What begins as a fun adventure and a chance to reunite the siblings, who went separate ways after their mother left, instead turns into a journey filled with hidden meaning and unexpected outcomes. B.E.S. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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