History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund

I enjoyed half of this book, it conveys an excellent sense of place but the characters are lacking somehow. The narrator becomes interesting in the second half of the novel, when we are let into more of her personality and thoughts, before that she seems a detached and sometimes callous narrator. It's as if the story arc for her is the wrong way around. The first half of the novel seems redundant, as if it should have been told in snapshots during the second half of the novel, rather than in full in the beginning.