History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Lindaor Mattie or Madelinewas the voice I found that allowed me to think through some of this. ![]() And more broadly, I wanted to tell a story from the perspective a teenage girl who has not been transformed into a sexual object, and yet one who cannot help but understand the way that transformation grants a certain kind coveted visibility, even while it denies other forms of power. I wanted to think more about this small gesture, the boldness that might inspire it, as well as the longing for human contact. ![]() ![]() I began my own story with a middle school history teacher collapsing in front of his class, and a teenage girl reluctantly approaching him, taking his hand. I remember walking around the lush, manicured campus at the University of Southern California and scribbling a fitful response to what had come to seem to me like an overly examined subject in fiction: that of the experienced male teacher falling for a younger, highly eroticized female student. Coetzee's marvelous Disgrace and Francine Prose's Blue Angel. The first chapter was initially a short story that I wrote for a fiction workshop, in which we readamong other thingstwo novels about teachers and students: J. Tell us about the genesis of History of Wolves, which is your first novel. A conversation with Emily Fridlund, author of History of Wolves, in which she describes the genesis of her debut novel set in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota. ![]()
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