"A gentle, generous portrait of a twentieth-century life that fired my imagination. Each life in this novel, however seemingly ordinary, holds worlds of longing." **-**Colum McCann, New York Times Bestselling author of Twist and Let the Great World Spin"Wild Aster ... tells one woman's ordinary, extraordinary, defiant story. Anna Hogeland's unorthodox portraits of motherhood, family, friendship, and mid-c...

A woman considers pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships in this profound and provocative novel.Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second child. As this loss strains their bond and complications with Anna's own pregnancy emerge, her tenuous steps towards motherhood are shadowed and illuminated by the women she meets along the way, whose st...

Bloomsbury presents Wild Aster by Anna Hogeland, read by Marley Otto."A novel that marries the feel of a timeless classic with a sharp, contemporary sensibility” (Alexis Schaitkin) about a woman with a talent for survival, whose life spans the early twentieth century.Mae Smith starts her life as a stolen good: her biological mother, Ida, kidnaps her from her adoptive parents, and Mae grows up on the run, constantly changing towns and names, never a...

A woman considers pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships in this profound and provocative novel.Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second child. As this loss strains their bond and complications with Anna's own pregnancy emerge, her tenuous steps towards motherhood are shadowed and illuminated by the women she meets along the way, whose st...