“Once There Were Wolves” by Charlotte McConaghy | Readers Club Episode 301
Megan Elias2026-01-28T15:11:45-05:00…
The Snow Child
Megan Elias2025-12-03T09:28:42-05:00Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow.…
Ordinary Wolves
Megan Elias2025-12-03T09:25:53-05:00Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering in a sod igloo while blizzards moan overhead. But this is the only world Cutuk Hawcley has ever known.…