The Wolf will have its season. We have a bit of everything in this book. The author takes us down an often sensitive journey of a broken family, but we discover it’s more than that—it’s a broken society. It’s a story about love and loss and living with disability and flaws.
We ripple out from the family to see in stark and engaging writing that the world is disabled, too. We look at socio-economic letdowns, and pop culture, we go back in time to learn how it was in the old days, and we see the effect that religious upbringing can have on people.
And it’s woven together through the life of Fred and his clan in mid-west America. The sins of the mother.
Every story needs an adhesive to hold it together, and the glue in this admirable story of fiction/fact is song book referencing some banging tunes that stream throughout the book.