We will meet on Tuesday, March 25, at7:30 pm via Zoom, to discuss the fiction book, TheWolf Hunt, by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Thebook was published in 2023 and is 278 pages. It is available at the Oakland andBerkeley Libraries, and through Link+: https://csul.iii.com/search?/Xthe+wolf+hunt&SORT=DZ/Xthe+wolf+hunt&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=the+wolf+hunt/1,429,429,B/detlframeset&FF=Xthe+wolf+hunt&2,2,
From Amazon:
Award-winningauthor Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely and suspenseful explorationof the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family, as a mother beginsto suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible crime.
Lilachhas it all: a beautiful home in the heart of Silicon Valley, a successfulhusband and stable marriage, and a teenage son, Adam, with whom she has alwaysfelt a particular closeness. Israeli immigrants, the family has now lived inthe U.S. long enough that they consider it home. But after a brutal attack on alocal synagogue shakes their sense of safety, Adam enrolls in a self-defenseclass taught by a former Israeli Special Forces officer. There, for the firsttime, he finds a sense of confidence and belonging.
Then, tragedy strikes again when an African American boy dies at a house party,apparently from a drug overdose. Though he was a high school classmate, Adamclaims not to know him. Yet rumors begin to circulate that the death was notaccidental, and that Adam and his new friends had a history with Jamal. As moredetails surface and racial tensions in the community are ignited, Lilach beginsto question everything she thought she knew about her son. Could her worstfears be possible? Could her quiet, reclusive child have had something to dowith Jamal’s death?
Praised for “instilling emotional depth into a thriller plot” (New York Times Book Review on Waking Lions), Ayelet Gundar-Goshen once againbrings together taut, page-turning suspense, superb writing, and razor-sharpinsight into the fault lines of race, identity, and privilege and the darksecrets we hide from those we love most.
