History of Wolves
Books | Fiction / Literary
3.5
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Emily Fridlund
A teenage girl comes of age amid hidden dangers and family secrets in the Minnesota woods in this “beautiful, icy [and] electrifying debut” novel (NPR).Teenage Linda lives with her parents in the austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outsider at school, Linda is drawn to the new history teacher Mr. Grierson. But his shocking arrested for child pornography leaves Linda adrift as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires.When the young Gardner family moves in across the lake, Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy. But this new sense of belonging comes with secrets and expectations she doesn’t understand. Over the course of a summer, Linda will have to make choices that reverberate throughout her life.Finalist for the Man Booker AwardOne of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017
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Author
Emily Fridlund
Pages
326
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published Date
2017-01-03
ISBN
0802189776 9780802189776
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"The narrator/writing style really wasn't my thing and even though we were going at a fast pace it felt like one of the slowest books I've read so far. It felt like there was nothing really interesting even though the ideas themselves should have been. I could never tell who the author was talking about or at what point in time either."
"Interesting book. Took turns I wasn’t expecting. "
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Tierney Konitzer