num_pages: 288
description: Fourteen-year-old Madeline lives with her parents in the beautiful austere woods of northern Minnesota where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school Madeline is drawn to the enigmatic attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography the implications of his arrest deeply affect Madeline as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong. And then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake and Madeline finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy Paul. It seems that her life finally has purpose but with this new sense of belonging she is also drawn into secrets she doesnt understand. Over the course of a few days Madeline makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. As she struggles to find a way out of the sequestered world into which she was born Madeline confronts the life-and-death consequences of the things people doand fail to dofor the people they love
language: English
title: History of Wolves
publisher: Grove Atlantic