Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Description:

It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus -- her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance into June's life -- someone who will help her to heal, and to question what she thinks she knows about Finn, her family, and even her own heart.

subjects: Loss (Psychology),  AIDS (Disease),  Teenage girls,  Uncles,  Friendship,  Fiction,  Fiction, coming of age,  Friendship, fiction,  Aids (disease), fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Fiction, family life,  Fiction, romance, general,  LGBTQ young adult,  LGBTQ HIV/AIDS,  Painters,  Intergenerational relations,  Sisters,  Youth and death,  Coming of age,  Grief,  Romance fiction,  Amerikanisches Englisch,  nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2013-07-28,  New York Times bestseller,  Fiction, family life, general,  Death,  Strangers