FICTION 

The new novel from Andromeda Romano-Lax is a thrilling examination of how past trauma impacts the present BY ROBERT J. WIERSEMA

H Annie and the Wolves 

Soho Press  

Andromeda Romano-Lax

THE NEW NOVEL from Vancouver Island writer Andromeda Romano-Lax, begins with something of a familiar premise: a struggling academic comes into possession of previously unknown archival materials relating to her subject of study, with life-changing results. While A.S. Byatt’s Possession handled this premise brilliantly, Annie and the Wolves approaches the trope from an altogether unique perspective. The result is a novel that is at once thoughtprovoking, genre-stretching, and viscerally thrilling. It may not be a better book than Possession (that’s a significant bar to even approach), but Annie and the Wolves is a far more powerful reading experience: quirky, heartrending, and utterly enthralling.