I read This is Not a Werewolf Story

[conuly]

The shapechanging took so long to show up that, despite the title and enormous hint-dropping, I started to wonder if it really wasn't a book about that.

(And it isn't, despite the truly high stakes of the predator vs. predator subplot. But the main character does transform into a wolf and back again, repeatedly.)

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The Startling Colors and Abstract Shapes of Salt Ponds

The Return of Multigenerational Households

How Cirque Du Soleil Turns Gymnasts Into Artists

The girls who took over a town in rural India

The Guy Who Named Himself Meow But Failed to Turn Himself Into a Cyborg

Robotic Arm History: The Industrial Era's Defining Innovation

Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos

Cory Booker’s new big idea: guaranteeing jobs for everyone who wants one

When Disadvantaged Students Overlook Elite Colleges

Crossing Divides: The benefits of having friends who aren't 'just like us'

A real-life Lord of the Flies: the troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment

A Farewell to Dairy Queens

Trump's travel ban faces U.S. Supreme Court showdown

These Volunteers Are Battling Idaho’s Government To Expand Medicaid

This is what life in #MeToo jail looks like

Storytelling plays a vital role in addressing sexual assault, but what of the safety and well-being of survivors—both those who speak out and those who don't?

A joyful reunion with birth parents leads to incest, murder

Chicago’s Gang Database Is Full of Errors — And Records We Have Prove It

By Stifling Migration, Sudan’s Feared Secret Police Aid Europe

Instead of peace, indigenous Filipinos get the Duterte treatment

Comments

[stardreamer]

You see all those magazine articles about "miraculous reunions" between adopted children and their birth parents. What you don't see -- or at least, haven't seen until just recently with stories like this one -- is all the ways such a meeting can go drastically wrong. I wrote an essay about it some 20-odd years ago; it's one of the things which has kept me from looking for my biological family. Every time I think about it, I get cold feet.

[conuly]

Well, I think even the bad reunions don't usually end quite this badly or we would have heard about it.

[greghousesgf]

I remember reading several years ago in the New Yorker about a woman who met her birth parents as an adult and they turned out to be horrible, psychologically abusive people who CONSTANTLY demanded $$$ from her, etc. and she was clearly sorry she'd ever made any attempt to get ahold of them.

[conuly]

How awful!