Finalist for the Man Booker Award Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Winner of the GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction. One of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017; An NPR and MPR Best Books of 2017; #1 Indie Next Pick; A New York Times Editors’ Choice; A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection; One of USA Today ’s Notable Books; An Amazon Best Book of the Month; An ABA Indies Introduce Selection “The chilly power of History of Wolves packs a wallop that’s hard to shake off . . . an elegant, troubling debut.” — Los Angeles Times “Starkly affecting . . . one of the year’s most lauded debuts.” — Entertainment Weekly Teenage Linda lives with her parents in the austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outsider at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is faced with child pornography charges, his arrest deeply affects Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong. And then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake and Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy. But with this new sense of belonging comes expectations and secrets she doesn’t understand and, over the course of a summer, Linda makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. One of the most daring literary debuts of the year and a national bestseller, History of Wolves is an agonizing and gorgeously written novel from an urgent, new voice in American fiction. “Imagine one of those twisty ‘Girl’-titled mysteries in the hands of a great stylist. Fridlund’s debut is something like that, but better . . . an indelible story of fascination and dread.” — New York magazine “This captivating debut from a prodigious new talent injects taut suspense into a teenage girl’s awakenings as she confronts a web of mysteries in the chilly woods of Minnesota. A lavishly written novel with more than a glimmer of dread.” — O Magazine , one of 10 Titles to Pick Up Now Finalist for the Man Booker Award; One of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017; An NPR and MPR Best Books of 2017; A Booklist Adult Books for Young Adults; A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best; One of Hudson Group's Best Fiction 2017 titles; #1 Indie Next Pick; A New York Times Editors' Choice; A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection; One of USA Today 's Notable Books; An Amazon Best Book of the Month; An ABA Indies Introduce Selection, A BEA Buzz Book "An artful story of sexual awakening and identity formation . . . a novel of ideas that reads like smart pulp, a page-turner of craft and calibration." -- New York Times Book Review "Electrifying . . . History of Wolves isn't a typical thriller any more than it's a typical coming-of-age novel; Fridlund does a remarkable job transcending genres without sacrificing the suspense that builds steadily in the book . . . [it] is as beautiful and as icy as the Minnesota woods where it's set, and with her first book, Fridlund has already proven herself to be a singular talent." -- NPR "A compelling portrait of a troubled adolescent trying to find her way in a new and frightening world." -- People magazine, one of Five Best New Books "The chilly power of History of Wolves packs a wallop that's hard to shake off . . . an elegant, troubling debut, both immersed in the natural world but equally concerned with issues of power, family, faith and the gap between understanding something and being able to act on the knowledge." -- Los Angeles Times "Starkly affecting . . . one of the year's most lauded debuts." -- Entertainment Weekly "This captivating debut from a prodigious new talent injects taut suspense into a teenage girl's awakenings as she confronts a web of mysteries in the chilly woods of Minnesota. A lavishly written novel with more than a glimmer of dread." -- O Magazine, one of 10 Titles to Pick Up Now "Imagine one of those twisty 'Girl'-titled mysteries in the hands of a great stylist. Fridlund's debut is something like that, but better . . . an indelible story of fascination and dread." -- New York magazine "My, what big fictional teeth Emily Fridlund has." -- Vanity Fair "[An] exquisitely observed, quietly affecting debut novel . . . an absorbing contemplation of guilt and regret, agency and its abdication, and what it means to survive the wilderness." -- Boston Globe "Ominous, evocative . . . [Fridlund] writes with immediacy and precision." -- Seattle Times "Profound and disturbing . . . a tragedy of Shakespearean scope." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Lyrically written . . . [it] keeps surprising to the end." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Hypnotic . . . brilliantly crafted . . . atmospheric and chilling." -- Missourian "What's astonishing about History of Wolves is its confidence,