Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

June is just 14 when her beloved uncle and renown artist Finn Weiss dies of AIDS.  When his partner Toby reaches out to her, she is unsure how to respond.  Her mother believes Toby has caused Finn's death.  June is angry that her family and Finn kept Toby's existence hidden from her.  In addition, June is also mourning the change in her relationship with her own sister.  Always the perfect and beautiful one that June adored, Greta has grown hurtful and cruel.  Neither of the girls seem to be the ones in the final portrait painted by Finn.  But they are not the only ones in the family who are not what they seem to be.  Both generations suffer from their own resentments, secrets and regrets.  While it is Finn's death which brings many of these to light, it is Toby's that allows the healing to begin.  This is a story of grief, family and the AIDS of the 1980's told through the voice of a young girl trying to make sense of any of it.

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