In “Nightshade,” the first in a trilogy, that hierarchy is made up of shape-shifters who are fully human and fully wolves. I thought they were a good metaphor for a human relations hierarchy.” They are intelligent, social, forming incredibly tight packs. “I grew up in the middle of the Chequamegon National Forest in northern Wisconsin, a magical wilderness where wolves were an essential part of that mystery. “Werewolves have been depicted as ugly, cursed mutations, half-animal, half-human, beastly and horrid,” said Cremer, an assistant professor of history at Macalester College. Now, Cremer brings a new approach to these shape-shifters in “Nightshade,” her debut young-adult novel that’s creating big buzz among booksellers and on readers’ websites. Andrea Cremer always disliked the way werewolves are portrayed in books and such movies as Lon Chaney’s “The Wolf Man.”
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