"History of Wolves follows teenage Linda, who lives with her parents in an abandoned commune in rural Minnesota. When outsider Linda is taken under the wing of a seemingly ideal family across the lake, she is suddenly drawn into secrets she doesn't understand and, over course of a summer, makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life."--[Source inconnue].

We all were kind of shocked by and spent a lot of time discussing the fact that the author seemed to think that we didn't know what Christian Science was. The fact that the plot was hinged on that faith's rejection of modern medicine meant that if you knew what the religion was, the story was completely predictable, and we all felt as a result that it took far too long to develop. We found the main character interesting and felt that her weird mother and/or sister relationship with her neighbor was well developed, and we were compelled by the protagonist's love of nature (expressed through some nice descriptions) and adolescent-aged conflicted desire for new experiences, but none of that was enough to save the book from being obvious and kind of aimless. We didn't hate it, but it wasn't at the top of anyone's list.