Nadya, Pat Murphy
Nadya, Pat Murphy
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Nadya
The Wolf Chronicles

Author: Pat Murphy

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Unabridged: 15 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/29/2010

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis

The daughter of Polish immigrants growing up in the 1830s on the Missouri frontier, Nadya knew she was not like other girls. But when she became a woman and the Change came, she discovered just how different she was. For Nadya was a shape changer, a werewolf like her Polish immigrant mother and father before her.After coming through a great personal tragedy brought about by her trusting nature and burgeoning sexuality, Nadya heads west to California, seeking a place to be wild and free. Nadya befriends the more cultured Elizabeth and the prepubescent Jenny, and together, the three young women fight their way across the vast American frontier. En route, they encounter rattlesnakes, Indians, the remains of the cannibalistic Donner party, and Elizabeth's repressed sexuality, which leads to an affair between her and Nadya.

About Pat Murphy

Pat Murphy has won numerous awards for her science fiction and fantasy writing, including the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the World Fantasy Award. When not writing science fiction, she writes for the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s museum of science, art, and human perception. She lives in San Francisco.

Reviews

Goodreads review by KOMET

In this novel the reader sees Nadya living in a world of fear, loathing and intolerance for what is deemed unseemly and inexplicable, learning to live and thrive, both as a Woman and as a Wolf. In the process, she finds acceptance in a new life she is able to establish for herself out on the frontie......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

Interesting book. Partially based on fact with the wagon trains of families heading to California and all the perils that was involved with that and woven in that story the girl Nadya who was a shape shifter that turns into a wolf with the full moon. I was a bit disappointed with the ending as the b......more

Goodreads review by Gail

I was skeptical about reading a book about a werewolf, however was pleasantly surprised. I enjoyed reading about the immigration of people seeking new life going west to California and Oregon, their trials and hardships. I found myself rooting for the heroine, Nadya of the story. Instead of werewolf......more

Goodreads review by George

Stunning epic saga of pioneer life through the eyes (and heart and soul) of a passionate young émigrée who also happens to be a shape-shifter.......more

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