bAn Orange Prize FinalistbbrbA Man Booker Prize Nominee bbrbWinner of the 2009 Betty Trask PrizebbrbA Guardian First Book Award Nominee b pJake is in the tailspin of old age. His wife has passed away, his son is in prison, and now he is about to lose his past to Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake's memories become increasingly unreliable. What happened to his daughter Is she alive, or long dead Why is his son imprisoned And why can't he shake the memory of a yellow dress and one lonely, echoing gunshot pLike Marilynne Robinson's iGilead, The Wilderness iholds us in its grip from the first sentence to the lasti iwith the sheer beauty of its language and its ruminations on love and loss.