June Elbus, a shy fourteen-year-old who is distant to her parents and her older sister could only find comfort with her beloved uncle and godfather, a low profile artist named Finn Weiss. All is changed when Finn died of AIDS and a stranger, suspected as the one to blame for Finn's death, showed up in the funeral. Days later, June received a package contained Uncle Finn's treasured teapot and a note from the stranger, Toby for an opportunity to meet. Reluctant at first, but as June decides to meet merely out of curiosity, she will never imagined losing Finn forever can bring an entirely different life to her then to realize how she is not the only one who misses Finn as much as she does.
The time setting was in 1987, where anyone couldn't bear to talk about the newly-found disease or so as called the AIDS in that period of time. With that, it is heartbreaking enough to read but instead, for this particular book, the harsh reality of 'bad things can happen to good people but not the other way around' showed in a fourteen-year-old girl point of view magnifies the beauty of storytelling. Nominated as Goodreads Best Fiction 2012 which can assure readers this is a book worth reading, the kind of book that clings to you even days after the book is read. Personally, I've regretted trying to finish the book quickly in less than two days. This is the kind of book that you'd wish the book to last forever because its story so beautiful until you never want it to end.
At first, when you notice the book not only historical fiction genre, but also GLBT as well will probably hardly acceptable especially to Eastern readers. Not to worry, as it does not contain anything unpleasant. Another quality here is it proves love between same gender is as equal as any other love. And from that, it teaches us tolerance. Be ready to be amazed with Tell the Wolves I'm Home!
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