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Both vilified and venerated, wolves abound through cultural folklore and literature. In this hauntingly lyrical and unflinching inquiry, Erica Berry untangles these depictions - alongside her own research of the wolf and experience as a woman - to try to understand how we navigate terror, vulnerability and violence in our fragile, often dangerous world.

Luminously wise and unusually brave, Wolfish will stay with you long into the night.

About the Author

Erica Berry is a writer based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. She has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, where she was a College of Liberal Arts Fellow. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, Yale Review, Orion, Atlantic, Outside Magazine and elsewhere. Winner of the Steinberg Essay Prize and the Kurt Brown Prize in non-fiction, she is an Oregon Book Award Finalist for creative non-fiction and has received fellowships and funding from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the Ucross Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. She is currently an Associate Fellow at the Attic Institute for Arts and Letters and a writing instructor with Literary Arts in Portland.

@ericajberry | ericaberry.com

Reviews
Berry draws on a huge, rich depository of lupine literature. Wolfish is more than just an interesting exercise in cultural anthropology, though. The book's most obvious ancestor is Helen Macdonald's megahit of 2014, H Is for Hawk; it has that same intellectual range and a prose style that pushes [. . .] towards the poetic * * Sunday Times * *
A singular book. Reading this will invite you to examine your own walk through the world - hungry, afraid, brave -- KATHERINE MAY
Startling in its scope, covering everything from fairy tales to domestic violence. This book should be required reading * * LA Times * *
Ranging far and wide culturally in the company of wolves . . . Berry segues effortlessly from the reintroduction of wolves at Yellowstone national park to Pliny the Elder's belief that wolves held pharmacological benefits for women's bodies * * Guardian * *
Singular . . . a book entirely its own * * TIME * *
Explores the contours of human relationships - and what it means to be a woman - through this most familiar yet mysterious of creatures * * Financial Times * *
Terror propels Erica Berry's exhilarating book . . . No matter where Berry weaves, she sniffs out fascinating insights. And she writes about it in clear, beautiful language * * Washington Post * *
I devoured every startling, lyrical, haunting, yet all-too-familiar page of Wolfish. Such a stunning achievement, it left me feeling like one of the pack -- ELIZABETH RUSH, author of RISING, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
An exhilarating book - intricate, thoughtful, and thick with connections -- MEGHA MAJUMDAR, New York Times bestselling author of A BURNING
Berry's braided approach renders Wolfish both a vulnerable self-investigation and a wide-ranging exploration of fear - and, ultimately, an antidote to it. She makes a stirring case for walking alongside the symbolic wolf * * Atlantic * *



Book Information
ISBN 9781838854638
Author Erica Berry
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint Canongate Books
Publisher Canongate Books
Weight(grams) 287g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 26mm