Emily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota and currently lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Her first novel, History of Wolves, was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Fiction. It was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New . "History of Wolves" is an exquisitely nuanced novel that tenderly and fiercely examines one of the abiding truths of the human condition.'the quest for *self* never ceases'! With little parent supervision, 14 year old Linda is left to grow up like a weed in Northern Minnesota/5. In History of Wolves Fridlund weaves a complex and poignant tale of infatuation, belonging and responsibility. Told through the eyes of 14 year old Linda, she artfully reveals the dual shades of Mattie's world - her pleasure in solitude and her yearning to belong - as she travels back and forth across the lake during the summer of the Gardners/5().
In her fiction debut, "History of Wolves," Emily Fridlund takes precisely this guerrilla approach. Her narrator, Linda, may be a bit perverse and amoral; or she may be just your averagely. Find History Of Wolves by Fridlund, Emily at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. Complex questions around culpability are the crux of Emily Fridlund's debut novel History of Wolves, a compelling story that is shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Award. Teenager Linda.
History of Wolves is as beautiful and as icy as the Minnesota woods where it’s set, and with her first book, Fridlund has already proven herself to be a singular talent. — MICHAEL SCHAUB, NPR “ An absorbing contemplation of guilt and regret, agency and its abdication, and what it means to survive the wilderness. Emily Fridlund’s debut novel, History of Wolves, blends the genres of thriller and bildungsroman to tell the story of a teen’s coming of age through the life altering events that follow her taking up a babysitting position for her new neighbors. The novel, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, examines guilt, trauma, obsession, and the responsibility of the onlooker through the emotionally evasive protagonist as she attempts to navigate the adult world. Review: ‘History of Wolves’ by Emily Fridlund. Entertainment. 9th October Abigail Eardley. Wolves, even since the Anglo-Saxon period, have always been symbolic of humanity’s deepest anxieties. Representing the unexplained, lurking on the fringes of society, wolves embody the fear of the unknown. Beginning Madeline’s coming-of-age story, then, with the history of wolves rather than humans, immediately alienates the bildungsroman from traditional ‘growing up’ novels.
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