# Bewilderness - Hardcover

by **Karen Tucker** (Author)

**Set in rural, poverty-stricken North Carolina, this "beautiful, gritty, and piercing" novel follows two young women--best friends--as they "journey through the highs and lows of friendship, love, and addiction," perfect for readers of Julie Buntin's _Marlena_ (Erika Carter, author of _Lucky You_).**

Irene, a lonely nineteen-year-old in rural North Carolina, works long nights at the local pool hall, serving pitchers and dodging drunks. One evening, her hilarious, magnetic coworker Luce invites her on a joy ride through the mountains to take revenge on a particularly creepy customer. Their adventure not only spells the beginning of a dazzling friendship, it seduces both girls into the mysterious world of pills and the endless hustles needed to fund the next high.

Together, Irene and Luce run nickel-tossing scams at the county fair and trick dealers into trading legit pharms for birth-control pills. Everything is wild and wonderful until Luce finds a boyfriend who wants to help her get clean. Soon the two of them decide to move away and start a new, sober life in Florida--leaving Irene behind.

Told in a riveting dialogue between the girls' addicted past and their hopes for a better future, _Bewilderness_ is not just a brilliant, funny, heartbreaking novel about opioid abuse, it's also a moving look at how intense, intimate friendships can shape every young woman's life.

### Author Biography

**Karen Tucker** was born and raised in North Carolina. Her fiction has appeared in _The Missouri Review_, _The Yale Review Online_, _Tin House_, _Boulevard_, _Epoch_, and elsewhere. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains with her partner and multiple cats.

**Number of Pages:** 288

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN

**Publication Date:** June 01, 2021

## Details

- **Price:** 26.0 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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