Sue's Reviews > Howl: of Woman and Wolf

This book was written by the friend of a friend and is a wonderful personal tale of her journey through the hardships in her life as juxtaposed with her study of the issues surrounding the re-introduction of wolves in the West. She is an environmentalist, although a qualified one, as she listens to all sides and finds some truth and some lies in each opposing side. She equates her personal journey to wolves and a pack and her personal story is most resonant here. My only quibble with the story is that it seems to be trying to do too much. My lyrical, poetical brain enjoyed the personal sections and then my analytical, policy brain enjoyed the wolf sections but often the segues were so brief that my brain felt a little jarred. She pulls together all the stories at the very end but less heavy wolf policy would have made the metaphors with her life story more easily grasped. I hesitate to pound her, though, because the personal sections are moving, real, and well worth the read. (note to gentle readers: some language including a few extreme instances)