Should Luke be kept alive by artificial means? What outcome would he have wanted? Luke’s children disagree fiercely about the answers to these wrenching questions, a deadlock that is at the novel’s center. 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.” “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 that 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. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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