“Not your father's eco-novel. In compelling, image-driven prose, Benjamin Percy confounds the old polarities about wilderness and development by sending three generations of men into a doomed canyon, and letting so much hell break loose we can't tell the heroes from the villains-which feels exactly right. This is a dark, sly, honest, pleasing, slip-under-your-skin-and-stay-there kind of a book.”The starred review in PW chimes in:
"Percy's excellent debut novel (after the collection Refresh, RefreshHow was I supposed to resist? And I'm glad I didn't. The Wilding) digs into the ambiguous American attitude toward nature as it oscillates between Thoreau's romantic appreciation and sheer gothic horror. The plot...will keep readers rapt as peril descends and split-second decisions come to have lifelong repercussions."
Tune in tomorrow. Benjamin Percy stops by to answer 3Qs about the writing life and this terrific debut novel.
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