Stunning Debute Novel by Carol Rifka Brunt

Tell the Wolves I'm Home is one of those books where you just fall in love with the characters it contains.  It ends and you want to know more about them, more of their past and what becomes of them.  The story is set in the late 1980's at the height of the AIDS epidemic.  It was a time when very little was known and ignorance surrounded almost everyone from the people who had it to those who were scared of it to the doctors trying to treat it.  Fourteen year old June was about to lose her Uncle Finn, her best friend and the person she most admired. Finn was a successful artist living in New York and gave June an excuse to just be herself however awkward that may be.  When her Uncle dies she is broken.  Then at the funeral she see's a strange man trying to get her attention.  A very unlikely friendship comes of out of the promises made to a dead man, a friendship that will change June forever and her family forever.  The beautiful part about this book is that although it is primarily about June the surrounding cast of family is equally as compelling, from her torn mother to her detached sister you get thrown into the whole mess and love/hate each and everyone of them.  It is a heartbreaking story that you are swallowed by and at the end you will want to know more of each of them.  I will be waiting for this author to publish another book, she is going on my list!