Daughters of the Wild, Natalka Burian
Daughters of the Wild, Natalka Burian
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Daughters of the Wild
A Novel

Author: Natalka Burian

Narrator: Megan Tusing

Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/22/2020


Synopsis

“A gorgeous, different, and completely engrossing book. Burian’s writing is transporting -- and exactly what I needed right now.”
— Jessica Valenti, author of Sex Object: A Memoir

In rural West Virginia, Joanie and her foster siblings live on a farm tending a mysterious plant called the vine. The older girls are responsible for cultivating the vine, performing sacred rituals to make it grow. After Joanie’s arranged marriage goes horribly wrong, leaving her widowed and with a baby, she plots her escape with the help of her foster brother, Cello.

But before they can get away, her baby goes missing and Joanie, desperate to find him, turns to the vine, understanding it to be far more powerful than her siblings realize. She begins performing generations-old rituals to summon the vine’s power and goes on a perilous journey into the wild, pushing the boundaries of her strength and sanity to bring her son home.

Daughters of the Wild is an utterly absorbing debut that explores the female mind in captivity and the ways in which both nature and women fight domination. Like The Bell Jar set in rural Appalachia, Daughters of the Wild introduces a fierce new heroine and a striking new voice in fiction.

About Natalka Burian

Natalka Burian is the cofounder of the Freya Project, a nonprofit reading series that supports community-based activism and the work of women and nonbinary writers. She is the author of Welcome to the Slipstream, a young adult book, and the cocktail cookbook A Woman’s Drink, and is the co-owner of two bars, Elsa and Ramona.


Reviews

Goodreads review by BookNightOwl on December 07, 2020

Daughters of the wild deal with some tough tough subjects. Subjects such as child abuse, drugs, regular abuse and more. I listened to the audio book of this book and I thoroughly enjoyed this story. I was interested it kept me wanting to listen and find out what was going to happen next. I suggest t......more

Goodreads review by Andria on March 22, 2022

Pretty cover suckered me in. I made it about three chapters in and decided this definitely wasn't for me. 2 ⭐......more

Goodreads review by The LitBuzz on December 21, 2020

I wanted to love this book because it sounded magical and empowering of women. The idea for this story was solid but not executed as well as it could have been. It’s implied to be about a magical vine that relies on women for it’s growth. We don’t understand early on what that means of the women task......more

Goodreads review by Courtney on April 28, 2020

Transporting-- a story that twists inside of you and takes root just like the psychoactive plant at this novel's fascinating heart. Reads like a Lauren Groff novel with the magic of Marie-Helene Bertino.......more

Goodreads review by Cosmic on August 19, 2021

A really great read......more