When it comes to Luke, there’s a twist: As the book opens, he lies unconscious in a hospital bed, brain-damaged after a car wreck.
Picoult tells the Warrens’ story in her trademark style, alternating the characters’ points of view chapter by chapter. I lowered my face to the carcass and began to rip off strips of raw flesh, bloodying my face and my hair and snapping at Sikwla when he came too close.”Īs Luke’s wolf family thrived, his human family began to fall apart. “I wedged myself in between Kladen and Sikwla,” Luke recounts, “baring my teeth and curling my tongue to protect the food that was rightfully mine. To celebrate, he devoured half a calf with them. Only his reunion with the captive wolves he knew so well brought joy. In the waiting room, he smelled another patient’s sickness in her blood. At a doctor’s office, he marveled that the receptionist allowed strangers to approach without first signaling their submission. When he was injured, they licked his wound open and saved him from infection.Īlmost a year later, when Luke stumbled out of the forest and back into his old life, he was a stranger to his wife, Georgie, and their children, Edward and Cara. His wolf brethren provided him with meat from their kills. Gradually, though, Luke was accepted by the animals he revered. As a scientist, he had spent years in close-up study of captive wolves, but once in the wild, he felt terrified and tested. In Jodi Picoult’s 19th novel, “Lone Wolf,” Luke Warren describes what it was like to leave his family in New Hampshire and join a wolf pack in Canada.
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