The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy

Hello my lovely readers! I'm burning through books lately. My immediate TBR list sits at 15 that I'm hoping to get through by the end of the year! This book was one of them.  Let's get into it!

P.S. I have a MUCH larger TBR (aka my personal library and my local library) that I plan on tackling next year. 

SYNOPSIS
Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood—overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences—swoops in and stays.

Desiree and Danielle, sisters whose shared history has done little to prevent their estrangement, nurse bitter family wounds in different ways. January’s got a relationship with a “good” man she feels ambivalent about, even after her surprise pregnancy. Monique, a librarian and aspiring blogger, finds unexpected online fame after calling out the university where she works for its plans to whitewash fraught history. And Nakia is trying to get her restaurant off the ground, without relying on the largesse of her upper middle-class family who wonder aloud if she should be doing something better with her life.

As these friends move from the late 2000’s into the late 2020’s, from young adults to grown women, they must figure out what they mean to one another—amid political upheaval, economic and environmental instability, and the increasing volatility of modern American life.

MY THOUGHTS
I'm unsure how I feel about this book. Someone described it as quilt patchwork, which I felt is accurate. Another person described it as Insecure in book form, which I also think is accurate.

It took me a while to get into this book, but once I did, I enjoyed it.  However, Nakia's ending gave me whiplash and I felt it didn't really fit with the book. The book is non-linear but still connected. We're only given glimpses into the four ladies' friendships via flashbacks of when they're all together or when two or three of them are able to meet up, which I appreciated, seeing as how most of my friendships are long-distance.

I just don't know how to feel about this book, though! I thought it was OK, but hmmm....I'm just not sure if I feel any more strongly about it.