Fiction The Word for Woman Is Wilderness by Abi Andrews review – meet a teenage feminist explorer A young woman voyages from England to Alaska in an audacious debut that seeks to rewrite the rules of nature writing Erin travels to Denali national park, Alaska. Photograph: National Parks ServiceThe Word for Woman Is Wilderness is unlike any published work I have read, in ways that are beguiling, audacious and occasionally irritating. The disconnection between Andrews’ scholarliness and the constructed naivety of her narrator creates a gap that sometimes threatens the novel’s integrity. The Word for Woman … rises to its own challenges in engaging intellectually as well as wholeheartedly with its questions about gender, genre and the concept of wilderness. • The Word for Woman Is Wilderness is published by Serpent’s Tail.

Source: The Guardian February 02, 2018 10:52 UTC