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History of Wolves

History of Wolves

Emily Fridlund (born 1979)

English editions

Written in English

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Linda is fourteen, an observant, isolated girl who grew up in a commune with unconventional parents beside a lake in the woods of Minnesota. When a young family moves into the cabin across the water, she befriends the mother, Patra, and begins looking after her four-year-old son, Paul, while the boy's father is away. At school she is caught up in a scandal over a teacher accused of misconduct by a classmate who then takes the accusation back. When the father returns, Linda finds herself shut out of the household she has come to need, and her protective, possessive attachment to Patra grows darker as she fails to read the signs of what is happening inside the family.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Coming of age (assigned by AI)
Set in
United States
First published
2017
Author's age
38 when first published
ISBN

9780802125873 (Atlantic Monthly Press, United States)

9780802127389 (Grove Press, United States)

9781474602969 (Orion Publishing Group, United Kingdom)

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