Tell the Wolves I’m Home: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Amy Rubinate narrates with a clear and compassionate voice, imparting a clear sense of June’s many insecurities and her struggle as she re-imagines her uncle’s life. Her vocal characters are well drawn across the board, her pacing and emotional levels on the mark. Finn, June, and Toby are characters one won’t soon forget.”

  — SoundCommentary (audio review)

• “A gorgeously evocative novel about love, loss, and the ragged mysteries of the human heart, all filtered through the achingly real voice of a remarkable young heroine.”

  — Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author

• “Brunt writes about family, adolescence, and the human heart with great candor, insight, and pathos.”

  — Jonathan Evison, New York Times bestselling author

• “Tremendously moving…Brunt strikes a difficult balance, imbuing June with the disarming candor of a child and the melancholy wisdom of a heart-scarred adult.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Distracted parents, tussling adolescents, the awful ghost-world of the AIDS-afflicted before AZT—all of it springs to life in Brunt’s touching and ultimately hopeful book.”

  — People (four stars)

• “A dazzling debut novel.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “Flawlessly encapsulates the fragile years during the mid-’80s when the specter of AIDS began to haunt society at large.”

  — Minneapolis Star Tribune

• “With wry compassion, Brunt portrays the bitter lengths to which we will go to hide our soft underbellies and how summoning the courage to be vulnerable is the only way to see through to each other’s hungry, golden souls.”

  — Amazon.com

• “Brunt perfectly captures the longings and struggles of being a teenager and the sticky tensions between siblings. She also reminds us of the fear and ignorance surrounding the burgeoning AIDS epidemic during the Reagan-era ’80s. This book is beautiful and heartbreaking and hopeful all at once.”

  — BookRiot

• “A beautifully bittersweet mix of heartbreak and hope.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “What begins as a wary relationship between former rivals for Finn’s affection blossoms touchingly.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Elegantly pictures the New York art world of the 1980s, suburban Westchester, and the isolation of AIDS.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “Tell the Wolves I’m Home is a tale as charming and magnetic as the missing character at its heart. It’s a love story of the most unusual kind—several love stories, really—vivid and madly relatable, heartening as well as heartbreaking. Brunt is a captivating storyteller and a wonderful new voice.”

  — Rebecca Makkai, author of The Borrower