by Emily Fridlund
I get why some readers do not like Emily Fridlund's History of Wolves. I totally do. There are two primary stories being told in this novel; the narrative jumps back and forth between the two and also fills the reader in on backstory. The connection between these various threads is vague. If you're ...
"History of Wolves" is easy to read but harder to understand. I know how I feel about this book but I'm not sure what to think about it. It's a beautiful piece of writing that uses language with relentless precision to climb inside the head of the main character. Each page is watermarked with ...
If you were to tell me that you got lost in this novel, I would have to agree with you. If you were to tell me that, there were many good stories in this novel, I would agree with you. If you were to tell me that, you didn’t find this novel a bit strange or unusual, I would have to question you abou...
Madeline (or Linda or Mattie) remembers her childhood, the year she was 15 in particular, in 'A History of Wolves'. She's a lonely, insular girl. Set in the 1980s, Linda's parents are the last remaining members of a commune that was set up in rural Minnesota that fell apart before she started schoo...
The reader knows, right from the first page, that Paul dies. We haven’t yet met him of course, not properly, but we will spend the rest of the book getting to know this cute, imaginative, loving but picky and temperamental four-year-old in between glimpses of the court case following his death; Lind...
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