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Tell the Wolves I'm Home
by Carol Rifka Brunt
This was a gorgeous book. It was honest and sad and loving and intelligent. It's about a fourteen year old girl whose uncle has just died of AIDS. Her uncle was her best friend, and she loved him in a way that wasn't quite appropriate, and because of this, she is incredibly ashamed. She and her uncle's partner, Toby, slowly become friends, and the story is about that, and about grief, but also about the bond between siblings, and AIDS in the 1980's, and so many other things. I think that I was especially drawn to the book because June (the main character) would be only about four years older than I am. All of the cultural references and history felt right, as though they had come from my own childhood. But I also loved the writing and the characters; it was just a beautiful book.