Gone Wolf, Amber McBride
Gone Wolf, Amber McBride
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Gone Wolf

Author: Amber McBride

Narrator: Ariel Blake

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/03/2023


Synopsis

"Ariel Blake’s tender narration and youthful delivery will captivate listeners in this remarkable dual-timeline middle-grade audiobook." - Booklist

Award-winning author Amber McBride, whose previous book, Me (Moth), was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America in her middle-grade debut.

In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined—to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue—the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often—he’s pacing and imagining he’s free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf to0—she wants to know why she feels so Blue and what is beyond her small-small room.

In the present, Imogen lives outside of Washington, D.C. The pandemic has distanced her from everyone but her mother and her therapist. Imogen has intense phobias and nightmares of confinement. Her two older brothers used to help her, but now she’s on her own, until a college student helps her see the difference between being Blue and sad, and Black and empowered.

This audiobook empowers listeners to remember that their voices and stories are important, especially when they feel the need to go wolf.

A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends.

About Amber McBride

Amber McBride estimates she reads about 100 books a year. Her work has been published in literary magazines including Ploughshares and Provincetown Arts. Her debut young adult novel, Me (Moth) was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won the 2022 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent, among many other accolades. She is a professor of creative writing at University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, Virgina.

About Ariel Blake

Ariel Blake is a Black and Guyanese (American) theater artist, teacher, abolitionist & birth keeper based in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Her voice can also be heard narrating An Abolitionist’s Handbook by Patrisse Cullors and Raven Leilani’s Luster, among other titles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mai on August 27, 2024

Black History Month After consuming far too many YA dystopian novels during The Hunger Games era, I had to drop the genre after far too many of them were mediocre, e.g. Divergent. With the world the way it is currently, I'm not too sad they've made quite the resurgence. I always seem to have an easier......more

Goodreads review by Lee (Books With Lee) on October 17, 2023

Amber McBride has officially become one of my favorite authors. Love this book (full review to come)......more

Goodreads review by Toya (thereadingchemist) on September 11, 2023

Jesus. This is by far my favorite book by McBride, but it hurts so much. More to come.......more

Goodreads review by Traci on October 24, 2024

I think this is a very sweet book for young folks. I liked the idea of it but think the execution in two parts left me wanting more of a wrap up from the first part and less overall from the second.......more

Goodreads review by Beth on February 08, 2024

Eh. Not even really a fantasy. (view spoiler)[ The speculative stuff is a story a girl tells herself because she isn’t handling her grief over her siblings’ deaths very well (understandable) and it’s full of very thinly veiled references to modern problems of systemic and singular racist acts, and narrated by a gi (hide spoiler)]......more


Quotes

"McBride’s multidimensional genius shines through, artfully exposing the reality that Black Americans have lived lifetimes of dystopias. She scrupulously guides the complicated storyline and hard histories with context, definitions, and word choices. Raw, incisive, and authentic."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review


Awards

  • Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
  • Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year