SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO BECOME A WOLF BEFORE YOU CAN BE A MAN.
Meet 18 year-old Greg Samstag. With his high cheekbones, slanted green eyes, and all-too-graceful gestures, he seems more like a cat than a wolf. Yet a shadowy, nameless force has been haunting Greg, tempting him to lead the simple, brutal life of a wolf. And Greg is sorely tempted. As a wolf, he can return to a long-lost innocence. He can escape his doubts about his masculinity and his relationship with his narcissistic mother.
Greg's struggle with the werewolf leads him indirectly to his Jewish roots and to a religious life more satisfying than he has ever imagined, but the werewolf is not easily defeated. When Greg is at his weakest, the werewolf invades Greg's body. Greg must now expel the werewolf in a spiritual battle that requires great tenacity and faith. If he fails, he faces death-or worse.
Often moving, sometimes surreally funny, A Wolf in the Soul is always intense. Nuanced, realistic characters mix with over-the-top, absurd personalities. Kabbalistic themes and literary allusions percolate under the surface. But overriding everything else is the story of one young man who struggles with his own worst tendencies and emerges triumphant.
June 15, 2016 by Leviathan Press
