PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Emily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota. She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Her collection of stories, CATAPULT, was chosen by Ben Marcus for the Mary McCarthy Prize. She lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York. HISTORY OF WOLVES is her first novel.
So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth As exquisite a first novel as I've ever encountered. Poetic, complex and utterly, heartbreakingly beautiful So much is accomplished here, not least a kind of trust that this writer will make everything count, including the kind of data that is usually left for dead in a story
