History of Wolves: A Novel
by Emily Fridlund
Buy on Amazon"Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counterculture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong"--
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"Emily Fridlund’s electrifying debut novel doesn’t follow the now-familiar narrative arc that other coming-of-age novels do. The book tells the story of 14-year-old Madeline, who befriends a mysterious family that has just moved across the lake from the mostly abandoned commune where she lives. The relationship doesn’t end well. Madeline is a fascinating and unique character, and Fridlund’s thriller is as beautiful and as icy as the Minnesota woods where it’s set."
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