War of the Wolves
An ancient love story of three species
Set in the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest, a story of wolves, humans, and ravens — and the fragile, fierce bonds that connect them across thousands of years.
Before the forests were logged, before the rivers were dammed, before the roads were built — there was a world in which wolves, humans, and ravens lived in a complex, ancient relationship that shaped all three species. War of the Wolves is the story of that world.
Told across three timelines — the deep past, the colonial period, and the present day — this is a novel about what is lost when species lose each other, and what might be recovered if we choose to look. It is a love story in the largest sense: a story about the love between species, between generations, between a land and the creatures that call it home.
Lyrical, ambitious, and deeply researched, War of the Wolves is Gerald Shaffer's most literary novel — a book that will stay with you long after you have finished it.