He and Cara have to decide their father’s fate together.
Suddenly everything changes: Edward must return home to face the father he walked out on at age eighteen. Agent: Laura Gross, Laura Gross Literary Agency. Perennial bestseller (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable and gripping story about family secrets, love, and letting go in Lone Wolf.
You can always count on Picoult for a terrific page-turner about a compelling subject. There are no surprises, as Picoult (My Sister’s Keeper) as usual probes intriguing matters of the heart while introducing her fans to subjects they might not otherwise explore. As Cara and Edward navigate their own conflicts and Luke languishes in a coma, Picoult folds in mesmerizing excerpts of Luke’s book about life with the wolves. Cara wants to keep her father on life support Edward struggles with resentment but believes his father wouldn’t want to exist in a vegetative state. This is a heartbreaking story told in engaging prose. His ex-wife, Georgie, remarried to a lawyer, summons Cara’s brother, Edward, from Thailand, where he’s lived for years alienated from his family, who assume the estrangement stems from his father’s rejection of Edward’s homosexuality. Picoult’s impressive research into wolf biology, hierarchy and pack mentality ultimately forms a plausible and highly informative story.
Now divorced and raising his 17-year-old daughter, Cara, near his wolf compound, Luke sustains a traumatic brain injury in an accident. Picoult returns with two provocative questions: can a human join a wolf pack, and who has the right to make end-of-life decisions? Luke Warren, a vital free spirit, has devoted himself to understanding wolf behavior, to the point of having once abandoned his family to live with wolves.
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