Hello, this is NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Chloe Veltman filling in for Andrew Limbong this week.

Before we get into today's interview, though, I want to note that October 1st is a historic day.

It's the first day in over half a century that NPR and our member stations around the country are operating without federal support.

Things may feel uncertain, but here's what is certain. Public media endures, and you'll

still find us here telling stories that matter. We are committed to continuing this journey

alongside you, our audience. Now, to today's episode. Many friendships come and go.

Someone your pals with one year may not show up on your holiday card list the next.

And then there are those that endure for decades. Angela Flournoy's The Wilderness deals with the latter

category. Her new novel captures the long-term relationships between a group of black millennial women

and what happens to the dynamics as the women move into middle age.

In this interview with NPR's Juanus Summers,

the author says the characters in her book

aren't just navigating their relationships with their friends,

but also with the changing world around them.

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For many of us, the family we choose for ourselves is just as significant, perhaps even more so, than the one that we're born into.

That's the case for the group of black women at the center of Angela Flournoy's new novel, The Wilderness.

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