The opening chapter of this novel brought the author a literary prize and revealed to the world a new talent of great magnitude - Emily Fridlund. Linda is a single woman living with her parents in a former commune in the deep forests of Minnesota. She goes to school alone and is not friends with anyone. Her loneliness is suddenly interrupted when a new history teacher appears at school, and a strange family with a small child, Paul, moves into the neighboring cottage. New acquaintances will plunge Linda into the complex and confusing world of adults, where one wrong choice can cost her life. “The History of Wolves” is exactly the kind of book that should be read under the covers in the winter: it will give you a chill.