Diane Cook – författare

A Washington Post, NPR, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year • Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

“More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced — a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. But at its core, The New Wilderness is really about motherhood, and about the world we make (or unmake) for our children.” — Washington Post

"5 of 5 stars. Gripping, fierce, terrifying examination of what people are capable of when they want to survive in both the best and worst ways. Loved this."— Roxane Gay via Twitter

Margaret Atwood meets Miranda July in this wildly imaginative debut novel of a mother's battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change; A prescient and suspenseful book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, Man V. Nature. 

Bea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Until now. 

Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment to see if humans can exist in nature without destroying it. Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, they slowly and painfully learn to survive in an unpredictable, dangerous land, bickering and battling for power and control as they betray and save one another. But as Agnes embraces the wild freedom of this new existence, Bea realizes that saving her daughter’s life means losing her in a different way. The farther they get from civilization, the more their bond is tested in astonishing and heartbreaking ways. 

At once a blazing lament of our contempt for nature and a deeply humane portrayal of motherhood and what it means to be human, The New Wilderness is an extraordinary novel from a one-of-a-kind literary force.

Walking in Gods presence was made real to Michell and Diane by Brother Lawrence. Brother Lawrences experience is described in the classic book The Practice of the Presence of God: the Best Rule of a Holy Life.

If you follow the process of this book, it will transform your relationship with God. You will learn how to abide in Him through being aware of His presence in your everyday tasks. It will revolutionize your way of living. Your communion and intimacy with God will increase past what you thought possible. How can you be sure this is true? Many others have led the way with their lives transformed. This is a lost art awaiting your personal discovery. Applying yourself for just thirty days will instill these principles into your heart, never to be lost.

Michell and Diane have walked in Gods presence for over thirty-five years. They wrote this book to present a helpful tool to use as a short devotional. They have taken one hundred and fifty tips from Brother Lawrence. They present five of them to you each day to integrate into your life. You are encouraged to do this for thirty days while you go about your daily tasks, just as Brother Lawrence prayed while going about his daily tasks.