08/10/2015
A pack of vagabond, homeless teenagers camp out in unoccupied suburban homes in Lynn’s dialogue-driven tale of outcasts and rejects. The restless group, led by a control freak named Malcolm, pillage what they can and live off the land—which in this case happens to be a wasteland of supermarkets, malls, and convenience stores. If one of the kids stays with the group long enough, they “change” and become a unique type of werewolf. This is not your horror movie sort of werewolf, but simply a creature with heightened senses who preys on the fringes of normal society. Yet one of the teens’ rules is that an actual physical change is required—it’s not just a state of mind. When young Bobert is kicked out of the group for defying Malcolm, he returns home and finds his younger brother, Tim, has changed for the worse. Together they set out on a quest to rejoin the werewolves. As they evade the police and try to rebuild their lives in the wilderness, their twisted path reaches a crossroads at a house occupied by an unsuspecting old woman. At heart, Lynn’s compelling debut novel is a parable about loneliness, violence, and modern malaise. It is one of the first post-recession, post–housing crisis American novels of truly alienated youth and suburban fear. (Oct.)
In the tradition of Colson Whitehead's Zone One, a visionary debut novel about shelter, escape, family, violence, and dumpster-diving.
It's the story of a restless group of young squatters. They've run away from their families and their pasts, questing after knowledge of their most wild selves, roaming the half-empty suburbs of America, occupying the homes of the foreclosed or vacationing, never staying in one place long enough to attract attention, while shoplifting beer at the local Speedy Stop. They're building a new society with new laws, and no one will stand in their way.
But utopias are hard work, and as Rules for Werewolves unfolds, these young revolutionaries discover that it's much easier to break laws than to enforce them. Narrated in the shifting perspectives of the pack, Rules for Werewolves follows a community of drifters on the move, who seek a life in a wilderness that, by definition, has no room for them, and a freedom for which they may not be entirely prepared.
Kirk Lynn's debut novel is a hilarious and deeply moving story of people trying-and failing-to create a new life. At once a fractured fairy tale and a haunting vision of American disaffection, Rules for Werewolves marks the arrival of a fierce new talent.
In the tradition of Colson Whitehead's Zone One, a visionary debut novel about shelter, escape, family, violence, and dumpster-diving.
It's the story of a restless group of young squatters. They've run away from their families and their pasts, questing after knowledge of their most wild selves, roaming the half-empty suburbs of America, occupying the homes of the foreclosed or vacationing, never staying in one place long enough to attract attention, while shoplifting beer at the local Speedy Stop. They're building a new society with new laws, and no one will stand in their way.
But utopias are hard work, and as Rules for Werewolves unfolds, these young revolutionaries discover that it's much easier to break laws than to enforce them. Narrated in the shifting perspectives of the pack, Rules for Werewolves follows a community of drifters on the move, who seek a life in a wilderness that, by definition, has no room for them, and a freedom for which they may not be entirely prepared.
Kirk Lynn's debut novel is a hilarious and deeply moving story of people trying-and failing-to create a new life. At once a fractured fairy tale and a haunting vision of American disaffection, Rules for Werewolves marks the arrival of a fierce new talent.
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Rules for Werewolves
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BN ID: | 2940169701616 |
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Publisher: | Brilliance Audio |
Publication date: | 10/13/2015 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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