Carol Rifka Brunt
Tell the Wolves I’m Home might be the best debut novel of the year. Carol Rifka Brunt weaves together ideas about what it means to be a family and how one truly grows up against the backdrop of 1980s New York. The rippling, resonating effects of a beloved uncle’s death against an individual’s experience, a family’s cohesion, and a community struggling to understand it all is done in a seamless, masterful fashion that leaves this reviewer waiting for more. Dial Press Trade Paperback (randomhouse.com). —Angel Curtis
