## Review Date #note/sourcereview/book | #source/book📚/fiction | #source/book📚/ingested ## What is the story A girl flees unthinkable difficulties in a colonial Jamestown-like stockade to attempt survival going north. In her trial she experiences the beyond savage - "unmoved" world overflowed with real and imagined myth-making and magic as she flees from brutal fellowship and yet cannot survive alone. The book is shockingly well written, wrenching the reader forward with action and memory combining for the wrapping up of a life too short and terrible. The modern reader is shamed, while vaccinated against hunger, disease, and loneliness in his fire-warmed home and hot bath while the character shivered, starved and puked in the wilderness. ## What else do I wonder about? How close should we get to understanding this experience so that we can appreciate what we have and avoid the pull of gluttony? ## Action Get outside, live the hardship, trip and fall, break and heal, or not. Live the life. ## When do I want to stumble across this? #on/survival| #on/magic | #on/appreciation ## Source: Groff, L. (2023). _The vaster wilds_. Riverhead Books. ## References, Quotes, Ideas ```dataview table file.mtime.year + "-" + file.mtime.month + "-" + file.mtime.day as Modified from [[The Vaster Wilds]] and !outgoing([[The Vaster Wilds]]) sort file.mtime desc ```