Fridlund ratchets up tension with surgical precision, dropping fragments of clues like bread crumbs that lead back to the narrator’s point of trauma.įridlund had, however, been honing her craft for years as a short story writer and a Ph.D student at University of Southern California. It’s assured in the slowness with which it gives up its secrets. What’s astonishing about “History of Wolves” is its confidence, how little it reads like a first novel. “At the trial, they kept asking, ‘When did you know for sure there was something wrong?’” Linda remembers, “and the answer probably was, right away.” When the Gardners moved into the house across the lake and she starts babysitting their young son, Paul. Grierson, was arrested on child pornography charges. The narrator, Linda, now grown, recalls the year when she was 14. In that respect, Emily Fridlund’s debut novel “History of Wolves” is a sort of thriller, and she threads the narrative with a sense of impending doom. “Before Paul, I’d known just one person who’d gone from living to dead.”
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