Wild Type - Telsch-Williams M

Lewis and Clark meets Eat, Pray, Love in this tale of one woman fighting to define herself on an expedition into uncharted land. 

Thane may be the most lavish of all the Circled Kingdoms, but for a woman the city is a prison surrounded by a seventy-foot-high white wall. No rights, no education, and certainly no chance to leave. Penn's father knew this when he illegally taught his headstrong daughter science, shaping her love of nature and biology. He gave her only one request on his deathbed: promise to explore the uncharted Farlands in the west.

Yet, Penn struggles after his death. Without his guidance, without him protecting her dreams, she's no one. Only her father's shadow. But the wildness of the Farlands calls and she's willing to risk her own safety to see what lies beyond the wall.  

Set in a sweeping world of flora and fauna, both real and imagined, Wild Type composes a love letter to science and nature, to womanhood and the worthwhile struggle.