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Wolfish
- The Stories We Tell About Fear, Ferocity and Freedom
- Narrated by: Lessa Lamb
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Summary
A FINANCIAL TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK TO READ IN 2023
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 for VULTURE, LIT HUB, GOODREADS, RUMPUS, BUSTLE, READER'S DIGEST and more
Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature – vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf for nearly a decade, to get to the heart of what our stories about the wolf reveal about our relationships with one another and ourselves: ‘What does it mean to want to embody the same creature from which you are supposed to be running?’
The wolf is so often depicted as the male predator, preying on the vulnerable girl/woman who strays from the path; the she-wolf meanwhile depicts women who sit outside the accepted boundaries of feminine behaviour. Berry openly recounts her own uncomfortable and sometimes frightening experiences as a woman to try to understand how we navigate our fears when threat can seem constant.
Through it all, Berry finds new expressions for courage and survival: how to be a brave human and animal member of our fragile, often dangerous world.
Critic reviews
"Elegant and elegiac, Wolfish asks how we live alongside, and honour, both the wilds we do such harm to and the fears that run wild within us. Erica Berry beautifully weaves literature, science, philosophy, history, and her own memories to deconstruct millenia of myth-making around wolves, urging a return to something even more powerful than the tales we've spun: untangling the creature from our fear, to better understand both it and ourselves. This is a book composed of what humanity has made, yes, but above all it's a gorgeous reminder that we, too, are part of nature." (Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body)
"The space between humans and wolves is filled with stories, from fairy tales to family histories to our own fears and desires. With courage and insight, Erica Berry illuminates this tangled territory, inviting us to explore it for ourselves." (Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts)
"Wolfish starts with a single wolf and spirals through nuanced investigations of fear, gender, violence and story. A gorgeous achievement." (Blair Braverman, author of Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube)
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- oritutu
- 27-05-23
Fantastic
Heady cultural history of the wolf in the imaginary, symbolic, and real. Fascinating and engaging and really well told. I loved it.
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- AmazonAccount13453
- 20-11-23
Wouldn’t recommend
Poorly written and awfully structured. Like a sorority girls inner monologue for the majority of it. The audible narrator is the worst part - she is a pure dose.
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