A review by alex_blue
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

4.0

In 1987 there was a lot of misinformation about AIDS, but something that was interesting to me in this novel, about a teenage girl who befriends her late uncle's bereaved boyfriend, was the lack of homophobia. The girl's family has violently negative feelings about the boyfriend (whom they contend gave the uncle - the girl's mother's brother - AIDS and consider a murderer) but not because he's gay. Anyway, this is a powerful family drama surrounding the girl's friendship with her uncle's lover, who is also dying of AIDS.