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A review by jodiwilldare
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
5.0
2022 Update: Holds up well, still stunning and heartbreaking. A story set in the 80s that feels like how the 80s actually happened.
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We’re in the waning months of 2012 and I think I’ve read what will be my favorite novel of 2012. It’s Carol Rifka Brunt’s fantastic, heartbreaking, and all together wonderful Tell the Wolves I’m Home. Unlike 2011 which was a rotten year for fiction, this is a high honor because the year is chock full of fantastic fiction (Gone Girl, The Age of Miracles, and Where’d You Go, Bernadette? just to name a few).
Of the many things to compliment and laud in Brunt’s debut novel, the thing I appreciated most was how honest and realistic she placed her story in time. The story takes place in 1987 and centers on fourteen-year-old June Elbus as she copes with the death of her beloved uncle Finn from AIDS.
Read more.
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We’re in the waning months of 2012 and I think I’ve read what will be my favorite novel of 2012. It’s Carol Rifka Brunt’s fantastic, heartbreaking, and all together wonderful Tell the Wolves I’m Home. Unlike 2011 which was a rotten year for fiction, this is a high honor because the year is chock full of fantastic fiction (Gone Girl, The Age of Miracles, and Where’d You Go, Bernadette? just to name a few).
Of the many things to compliment and laud in Brunt’s debut novel, the thing I appreciated most was how honest and realistic she placed her story in time. The story takes place in 1987 and centers on fourteen-year-old June Elbus as she copes with the death of her beloved uncle Finn from AIDS.
Read more.