The MC is obsessed with them but otherwise, I am still trying to understand why it is named so. Well, it wasn’t because of the Wolves as there is no physical presence of the animals in the pages of this novel.

Now that we established that I have a twisted taste I will try to tell you why I enjoyed History of Wolves. I, on the other hand, liked it and disliked highly appreciated novels such as Lincoln in The Bardo. Most of the The Mookse and the Gripes group members tend to place this novel as their least favorite. It seems I am against the tide with this year Booker Longlist. As she struggles to find a way out of the sequestered world into which she was born, Madeline confronts the life-and-death consequences of the things people do-and fail to do-for the people they love Over the course of a few days, Madeline makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. It seems that her life finally has purpose but with this new sense of belonging she is also drawn into secrets she doesn’t understand. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Madeline as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong.Īnd then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake and Madeline finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy, Paul. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Madeline is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Fourteen-year-old Madeline 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 counter-culture world.

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