<DIV>Set on the Minnesota prairies in 1987, during a drought season that is not helping the demise of the family farms, the story features two intertwining narrators, a father searching for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, and a pastor's wife who has returned to the town for mysterious reasons of her own. A penetrating look at small?town America, reminiscent of Russell Banks' <I>Sweet Hereafter</I> or <I>Affliction</I>, driven by a powerful murder mystery, <I>Little Wolves</I> is a page?turning literary triumph.</DIV>