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Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Carol Rifka Brunt

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Jan 25, 2013 Irene rated it it was ok

I had opened this book with very high expectations for an amazing read, hopes inspired by the praise surrounding it. I closed the book disappointed. This young adult book is narrated by a 15 year old girl recalling a six month pivotal period during the previous year. Her beloved uncle, the object of an adolescent crush, has just died of AIDS and she transfers her affections to his partner, also dying of the disease. The year is 1986, so fear of this unfolding epidemic and its stigma serves as a ...more

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Jan 26, 2014 Meghan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: own, dmbc, book-club

Emotionally wrecked in that good way, the way that means the story put you smack dab in the middle of everything and you lived the life the characters lived. 5 stars because this story captured my heart and made me love June and Greta and Finn and Toby. It made me weep at all the lives lost to AIDS, the Ryan Whites and the Pablos from the Real World. Before science caught up and made it something you could live with.

This read like an older YA story, but I'm okay with that. It still touched me. A ...more

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Jan 19, 2014 Sera rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, literary-fiction, library, own

What an excellent debut novel.

This story opens with June, who loses her Uncle Finn to AIDS when people didn't know much about the disease. The rest of the book is about how she copes with this loss and how the loss impacts her relationship with other people, particularly her sister Greta, who is having some major issues of her own. The characters are well-written and developed, and the story is very different from other books that I've read. However, I think that what I loved most about this boo ...more

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Jul 23, 2023 Nadine in California rated it it was ok

The narrator of the audio did a fine job, but I grew increasingly disenchanted as I went along. It started out strong for me, with an interesting sisters/family dynamic, and a thoughtful, authentic teenage narrator. But as the Toby narrative took over, I felt increasingly emotionally manipulated by the story, rather than carried away by it. Toby never came alive for me - he felt like a construct designed to elicit pity, rather than a fully rounded person, and his life story seemed improbable. St ...more

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