Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017.
Already being acclaimed as one of the most exciting new debuts of 2017, Emily Fridlund's History of Wolves is a brilliant coming-of-age novel that will appeal to fans of The Girls and The Virgin Suicides.
Linda, age 14, lives on a dying commune on the edge of a lake in the Midwest of America. She and her parents are the last remaining inhabitants, the others having long since left amid bitter acrimony. She has grown up isolated both by geography and her understanding of the world, and is an outsider at school, regarded as a freak.
One day she notices the arrival of a young family in a cabin on the opposite side of the lake. She starts to befriend them, first their four-year-old son Paul, and then his young mother Patra, who is also lonely and isolated. For the first time she feels a sense of belonging that has been missing from her life.
Leo, the father, is a university professor and an enigmatic figure, perpetually absent. When he returns home, Linda is shunned by the family unit. Desperate to be accepted again, she struggles to resume her place in their home and fails to see the terrible warning signals, which have such devastating consequences.
Finalist for the Man Booker AwardFinalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut FictionWinner of the GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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Finalist for the Man Booker AwardFinalist for the PEN/Robert W. Isolated at home and an outsider at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic Lily and new history teacher Mr.
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History of Wolves was written by Emily Fridlund and published by Atlantic Monthly Press an imprint of Grove Atlantic
History of Wolves has 279 pages
