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Emily Fridlund

Biography

Emily Fridlund

Emily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota and currently resides in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Her fiction has appeared in a variety of journals, including Boston Review, Zyzzyva, FiveChapters, New Orleans Review, Sou'wester, New Delta Review, Chariton Review, Portland Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly. The opening chapter of HISTORY OF WOLVES won the 2013 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for fiction, and Fridlund's collection of stories, CATAPULT, won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and will be published by Sarabande in the fall of 2017.

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Emily Fridlund

Books by Emily Fridlund

History of Wolves
by Emily Fridlund - Fiction

Isolated at home and an outlander at school, 14-year-old Linda is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong. And then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake, and Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy, Paul. It seems that her life finally has purpose, but with this new sense of belonging she is also drawn into secrets she doesn’t understand. Over the course of a few days, Linda makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life.