Tell The Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

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Some losses feel too big to survive—until an unexpected friendship shows you the way forward.

It’s 1987, and fourteen-year-old June Elbus has just lost the one person who truly understood her: her uncle Finn, a brilliant painter who saw her in ways no one else could. Shy at school, distant from her sister, June could only be herself in Finn’s presence. Now he’s gone, taken by a mysterious illness her mother can barely name, and June’s world has gone silent.

Then a stranger appears at the funeral—a man named Toby who lingers at the edge of the mourners. Days later, a package arrives: a delicate teapot from Finn’s apartment and a note asking to meet. As June and Toby begin spending time together, she discovers she wasn’t the only one who loved Finn. In their shared grief, these two unlikely friends find something neither expected: a path through the darkness.

Carol Rifka Brunt’s debut novel has captivated readers and critics alike. O: The Oprah Magazine called it “a dazzling debut,” while The Wall Street Journal praised its tremendously moving portrait of love and loss. Winner of the Alex Award and named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and School Library Journal, this is a story about the people who shape us and the connections that save us.

A tender exploration of family, first love, and the courage it takes to keep living after loss.

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