Madeline Furston, first-person narrator of Emily Fridlund’s debut novel, “History of Wolves,” is hard to know. She’s called Linda at her middle school, but also Commie or Freak. She’s an only child, ...

In Emily Fridlund's debut novel, History of Wolves, readers meet a girl who lives in a cabin on an isolated northern lake. In her fourteenth year... Oct 25, 2017 — In Emily Fridlund's debut novel, ...

Praise for History of Wolves: “An atmospheric, near-gothic coming-of-age novel turns on the dance between predator and prey . . . Fridlund is an assured writer . . . The novel has a tinge of fairy ...

There's a reason that some readers view contemporary coming-of-age novels with suspicion. Too many play out the same way: An odd but winsome young person goes on some kind of journey of discovery, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Emily Fridlund had other things on her mind when her editor emailed her in late July to say her novel, History of Wolves, had been ...

Emily Fridlund became a name to watch with “History of Wolves,” her Booker Prize-nominated debut novel. Now comes “Catapult,” a kind of tasting menu showcasing Fridlund’s stark, dissonant voice. Her ...

"What's the difference between what you think and what you end up doing?" Complex questions around culpability are the crux of Emily Fridlund's debut novel History of Wolves, a compelling story that ...

Families are upended again and again in stories that, though they rarely have tight plots, unfold in taut sentences packed with startling insights. Why wives suddenly leave, or what husbands expect, ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. “The woods of my childhood are not the same woods I see today.” Ah, the allure of the coming-of-age ...