Red Wolf's Room

  This novel is historical fiction because the author based it on her hometown of Cooperstown in New York. I also learned that this is a domestic novel, aka women's fiction. According to American literary critic Nina Baym, a domestic novel has a the following plot:  T he story of a young girl who is deprived of the supports she had rightly or wrongly depended on to sustain her throughout life and is faced with the necessity of winning her own way in the world . . . . At the outset she...looks to the world to coddle and protect her . . . . But the failure of the world to satisfy either reasonable or unreasonable expectations awakens the heroine to inner possibilities. By the novel's end she has developed a strong conviction of her own worth.     You Should Read The Monsters of Templeton  if... You enjoy genealogical hunts. You love worldbuilding. You want to solve a mystery. You're interested in books that touch on colonialism. Want a short, spoiler-free review?...