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In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you dont know youve lost someone until youve found them.
At Finns funeral, June notices a strange man lingering just beyond the crowd. A few days later, she receives a package in the mail. Inside is a beautiful teapot she recognizes from Finns apartment, and a note from Toby, the stranger, asking for an opportunity to meet. As the two begin to spend time together, June realizes shes not the only one who misses Finn, and if she can bring herself to trust this unexpected friend, he just might be the one she needs the most.
An emotionally charged coming-of-age novel, Tell the Wolves Im Home is a tender story of love lost and found, an unforgettable portrait of the way compassion can make us whole again.
Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: In Tell the Wolves Im Home, Carol Rifka Brunt has made a singular portrait of the late-80s AIDS epidemics transformation of a girl and her family. But beyond that, she tells a universal story of how love chooses us, and how flashes of our beloved live through us even after theyre gone. Before her Uncle Finn died of an illness people dont want to talk about, 14-year-old June Elbus thought she was the center of his world. A famous and reclusive painter, Finn made her feel uniquely understood, privy to secret knowledge like how to really hear Mozarts Requiem or see the shape of negative space. When hes gone, she discovers he had a bigger secret: his longtime partner Toby, the only other person who misses him as much as she does. Her clandestine friendship with Tobywho her parents blame for Finns illnesssharpens tensions with her sister, Greta, until their bond seems to exist only in the portrait Finn painted of them. With wry compassion, Brunt portrays the bitter lengths to which we will go to hide our soft underbellies, and how summoning the courage to be vulnerable is the only way to see through to each others hungry, golden souls. --Mari Malcolm
Advance praise for *Tell the Wolves Im Home *In this lovely debut novel set in the 1980s, Carol Rifka Brunt takes us under the skin and inside the tumultuous heart of June Elbus...Distracted parents, tussling adolescents, the awful ghost-world of the AIDS-afflicted before AZTall of it springs to life in Brunts touching and ultimately hopeful book.--*People*
[A] transcendent debut... Peopled by characters who will live in readers imaginations long after the final page is turned, Brunts novel is a beautifully bittersweet mix of heartbreak and hope.Booklist (starred review)
A poignant debut...Brunt's first novel elegantly pictures the New York art world of the 1980s, suburban Westchester and the isolation of AIDS.--Kirkus
In [Tell the Wolves Im Home], 15-year-old June must come to terms with the death of her beloved uncle Finn, an artist, from AIDS in 1980s New York. ...What begins as a wary relationship between former rivals for Finns affection blossoms touchingly.-PW
A gorgeously evocative novel about love, loss, and the ragged mysteries of the human heart, all filtered through the achingly real voice of a remarkable young heroine. How can you not fall in love with a book that shows you how hope can make a difference?Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You
Tell the Wolves Im Home is a charming, sure-handed, and deeply sympathetic debut. Brunt writes about family, adolescence, and the human heart with great candor, insight, and pathos.Jonathan Evison, New York Times bestselling author of West of Here
Tell the Wolves Im Home is a tale as charming and magnetic as the missing character at its heart. Its a love story of the most unusual kindseveral love stories, reallyvivid and madly relatable, heartening as well as heartbreaking. Brunt is a captivating storyteller and a wonderful new voice.Rebecca Makkai, author of The Borrower
Not since To Kill A Mockingbird have I read a piece of fiction that so beautifully captures the point of view of a young person, especially one so inspiringly unable to accept the prejudices of others....at turns getting away- with-it exhilarating and pass-the-tissues heartbreaking but also a testament to the power of secrets kept and revealed.Metrosource
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