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History of wolves, a novel, Emily Fridlund

Label
History of wolves, a novel, Emily Fridlund
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
History of wolves
Responsibility statement
Emily Fridlund
Sub title
a novel
Summary
Linda has an idiosyncratic home life: her parents live in abandoned commune cabins in northern Minnesota and are hanging on to the last vestiges of a faded counter-culture world. The kids at school call her 'Freak', or 'Commie'. She is an outsider in all things. Her understanding of the world comes from her observations at school, where her teacher is accused of possessing child pornography, and from watching the seemingly ordinary life of a family she babysits for. Yet while the accusation against the teacher is perhaps more innocent than it seemed at first, the ordinary family turns out to be more complicated. As Linda insinuates her way into the family's orbit, she realises they are hiding something
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