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sariahsharp 's review for:
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
by Carol Rifka Brunt
This is a practically perfect book. A coming of age story that doesn't feel like a coming of age story. A book about the love of a girl and her uncle, but also more about the love of two sisters, the love of a brother and a sister, and love born from unlikely an friendship. It's about grief and recovery. It's about AIDS in the 80's without feeling like a kitschy 80's memory. There's so much to this story and you just really have to read it, to experience it. It's beautifully written and so well thought out. It doesn't feel like a "debut novel". I have an uncle who died of AIDS in the very early 90's. Reading this made me think of him and the stigma placed on him. There was so much misinformation because, as the characters say in the book, they just didn't *know*. Even today, people don't understand it and place blame and labels that don't belong there. Reading this brought so many memories to my mind. It makes you think. I loved it.