This is just not what I expected (and wanted)! Based off of the first chapter, I was under the impression this was going to be about wolves (e.g. how they evolved, what they do for ecosystems, general facts about them, more science-y I guess), our stories/perceptions of wolves, and how those perceptions impact human relationships with wolves. But this immediately was just a lack luster memoir? I mean, a book focusing on folktales, gender, and wolf symbolism in a woman's everyday life would be an interesting and perhaps more focused one, but that was not the book I was promised when reading the summary and first chapter. And the book it actually was did not do anything for me, the author's reflections felt shallow, disjointed, and unclear. The quotes pulled from other sources only seemed peripherally related to the arguments she was trying to make, and by the end of chapter 2 I was confused about her actual thesis. I'm thinking this book is just trying to do too much, and in doing so lost focus. I just wanted a wolf book!