I am not going to tell you what the main theme is as I believe you should discover it as you read. The reveal had an important impact on me as I feel strongly about this subject. We do not exactly what happens until the end. You see, we learn from the start that Paul dies in peculiar circumstances. The novel jumps forward and back in time, sometimes sloppily, as other complained, but most of the time the plot device succeeds to maintain tension. She soon becomes their baby sitter and the experience will change her life. She is immediately drawn by the 4 year old Paul and her mother. Her life changes when the Gardner family moves in the new house in the woods. She is socially awkward, understandable, taking in consideration her upbringing. The story is told from Madeline’s (Linda or Mattie) point of view who lives in an ex-commune in the woods in Northern Minnesota, where only her parents were left. The MC is obsessed with them but otherwise, I am still trying to understand why it is named so. Well, it wasn’t because of the Wolves as there is no physical presence of the animals in the pages of this novel. Now that we established that I have a twisted taste I will try to tell you why I enjoyed History of Wolves. I, on the other hand, liked it and disliked highly appreciated novels such as Lincoln in The Bardo. Most of the The Mookse and the Gripes group members tend to place this novel as their least favorite.
It seems I am against the tide with this year Booker Longlist. 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 do-and fail to do-for the people they love Over the course of a few days, Madeline makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. It seems that her life finally has purpose but with this new sense of belonging she is also drawn into secrets she doesn’t understand. 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.Īnd 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. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Madeline is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. 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.
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