History of Wolves: Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize: Emily Fridlund - Softcover

Beautifully written (LITERARY REVIEW)

Compelling ... History of Wolves stands out. (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

think Winter's Bone with less crime and more lyricism.. Fridlund is a fine writer and her work is cut through with moments of sparse beauty. (FINANCIAL TIMES)

one of the most intelligent and poetic novels of the year (NEW STATESMAN)

Fridlund's writing is vivid: her natural descriptions elicit a superb sense of place (DAILY MAIL)

this is a top-notch thriller: suspicion drips like icicles in the thaw (THE TIMES)

Fridlund is a fine writer and her work is cut through with moments of sparse beauty. (FINANCIAL TIMES)

Haunting and compelling (i NEWSPAPER)

Reminds me of Curtis Sittenfeld...so original, a beautiful literary work" (Viv Groskop); "A writer with a great future ahead of her...her prose is exquisite" (Louise Doughty) (BBC RADIO 4: SATURDAY REVIEW)

The chilling plot is only part of the mesmerising power of this assured and striking debut from this American novelist (PRESS ASSOCIATION)

Emily Fridlund grew up in the Twin Cities and received her MFA in fiction from Washington University in Saint Louis. In 2014, she completed her PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. Her short fiction is forthcoming or has appeared in ZYZZYVA,Boston Review, Southwest Review, FiveChapters, New Orleans Review, Sou'wester, and The Portland Review, among other journals. Emily is currently revising her first novel, History of Wolves, which was supported by a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for feminist projects. Along with her novel, Emily's graduate research was a study of simultaneity in modernist and contemporary narrative called The Usual Things in Unusual Places.