Annie and the Wolves, Andromeda RomanoLax
Annie and the Wolves, Andromeda RomanoLax
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Annie and the Wolves

Author: Andromeda Romano-Lax

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Unabridged: 12 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/02/2021


Synopsis

A modern-day historian finds her life intertwined with Annie Oakley's in an electrifying novel that explores female revenge and the allure of changing one's past.

Ruth McClintock is obsessed with Annie Oakley. For nearly a decade, she has been studying the legendary sharpshooter, convinced that a scarring childhood event was the impetus for her crusade to arm every woman in America. This search has cost Ruth her doctorate, a book deal, and her fiancé—but finally it has borne fruit. She has managed to hunt down what may be a journal of Oakley's midlife struggles, including secret visits to a psychoanalyst and the desire for vengeance against the "Wolves," or those who have wronged her.

With the help of Reece, a tech-savvy senior at the local high school, Ruth attempts to establish the journal's provenance, but she's begun to have jarring out-of-body episodes parallel to Annie's own lived experiences. As she solves Annie’s mysteries, Ruth confronts her own truths, including the link between her teenage sister's suicide and an impending tragedy in her Minnesota town that Ruth can still prevent.

About Andromeda Romano-Lax

Andromeda Romano-Lax is the author of The Spanish Bow, a New York Times Editors' Choice that has been translated into eleven languages; The Detour; Behave; and Plum Rains, which won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic; as well as numerous works of nonfiction. She is a cofounder of 49 Writers, a statewide literary organization in Alaska, and lives on a small island in British Columbia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on December 31, 2020

This is not Annie Get Your Gun - this is Way Way better! Annie Oakley is a woman way ahead of her time - she would be edgy even now. Not being a person of her time, this book's play with timelines is spot on. And the main character, Ruth, is yet another strong and complex woman. I love the way the a......more

Goodreads review by Bam cooks the books on May 31, 2021

**Mother and daughters book club read for May, 2021** This book was really different: a mixture of historical fiction and fantasy, told in two timelines. In the present day, Dr Ruth McClintock has been writing a book about Annie Oakley, the legendary sharpshooter who wanted to arm every woman in Amer......more

Goodreads review by Judy on March 29, 2021

When I discovered that Annie Oakley was a main character in this novel, I had to read it. Annie Oakley was a childhood heroine of mine. I never missed an episode of the TV series and for years when we played cowboys outside, I was Annie and my bike was my horse. I also had a cap gun and a holster. An......more

Goodreads review by Abbie on February 12, 2021

Definite genre bender. Thriller, historical, fantasy. That alone was a lot to handle. On top of that we get multiple themes that are really dense and emotionally packed. None of them were handled well: gun violence, sexual assault, how to tell history and why it matters, mental health/suicide etc.. I......more

Goodreads review by switterbug (Betsey) on March 11, 2021

This choice was a risk for me, since I never had a particular interest in Annie Oakley, and I only enjoy sci-fi if the human and psychological elements are not compromised and it isn’t used to fork the plot, if you know what I mean. Well, the sharply rendered and accurate/organic human elements are......more