Little Wolves [Paperback]

A tragic act of violence echoes through a small Minnesota town

Set on the Minnesota prairie in the late 1980s during a drought season that’s pushing family farms to the brink,Little Wolvesfeatures the intertwining stories of a father searching for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, and a pastor’s wife (and washed-out scholar of early Anglo-Saxon literature) who has returned to the town for mysterious reasons of her own. A penetrating look at small-town America from the award-winning author ofThe Night Birds,Little Wolvesweaves together elements of folklore and Norse mythology while being driven by a powerful murder mystery; a page-turning literary triumph.One of School Library Journal's Best 2013 Adult Books 4 Teens

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Praise for Little Wolves

Here’s one I’ll recommend—Tom Maltman’s written an ambitious mythic thriller that hums with energy and portent. Set under brooding prairie skies,Little Wolveshas modern psychoses and generational wickedness, ravening devils and uneasy saints. It shifts and dodges like wind, and it rings with conviction and confidence. What more can a reader ask?
—Leif Enger, author ofPeace Like a River

“Satisfying on so many levels . . . heartbreakingly real. This unpretentious tale of life in rural Minnesota is writing at its finest.”
—William Kent Krueger,New York Timesbestseller and winner of the Edgar award

“Took my breath away . . . as rich in myth and metaphors as Cormac McCarthy'sThe Road.”
—Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

“Part allegory, part mystery and pure poetry, layered with Norse mythology and Anglo Saxon narratives, Maltman's second novel is dark, redemptive and very beautiful.”
—Minneapolis Stl%