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HISTORY OF WOLVES By Emily FRIDLUND

To be Published on August 17 in FRANCE


HISTORY OF WOLVES By Emily FRIDLUND (Source: Gallmeister Editions)
HISTORY OF WOLVES By Emily FRIDLUND
(Source: Gallmeister Editions)
USPA NEWS - Emily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota and currently resides in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Her fiction has appeared in a variety of journals She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. The Opening Chapter of 'History of Wolves' was published in Southwest Review and won the 2013 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction. The Book will be published in FRANCE by Gallmeister Editons - August 17, 2017....
Emily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota and currently resides in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Her fiction has appeared in a variety of journals She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. The Opening Chapter of 'History of Wolves' was published in Southwest Review and won the 2013 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction. The Book will be published in FRANCE by Gallmeister Editons - August 17, 2017.

Teenage Narrator Madeline Furston is raised by Parents as only child, who are the last Vestiges of a failed Cult, she lives a semi-wilderness Life in a Cabin at the edge of a Lake, on the fringe of a Northern Minnesota Forest wearing hand-me-downs from Neighbors. She may be a bit perverse and amoral or she may be just your averagely Narcissistic Teenager, prone to Casual Brutality and Blind to the Hardships and Hurts of those around her. She´s called Linda at her Middle School, but also Commie or Freak.
She is drawn to Mr. Grierson, a Substitute History Teacher, who himself pays a lot of attention to the Cheerleaders and especially Lily Holburn, she of the sleek black hair and sheer sweaters. When Grierson is later discovered to be a Pedophile on the run from a School in California, and Lily accuses him of molestation, the Reader´s suspicions are confirmed even if Linda feels deceived.

When Paul and his young Mother, Patra, move into the House across the Lake, Linda is drawn to them, as they are to her. Each Party is lonely... It takes her awhile to realize she´s been the Passive Witness to something dreadful, and it takes her even longer to process it. Inaction can be scarring, its own form of Moral Injury...

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