Silver Wolves

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Jonah is a teenager torn between the life of the streets and a life of art and opportunity in 1950s New York City. The first young adult novel by the award-winning writer of noir and American life who the Los Angeles Times called “Absolutely unique among American writers." Jonah Salt is incarcerated in a juvenile detention center in the Bronx, after getting busted for burglary and gang activity. His probation officer gets him out and at the behest of his public school teacher, he auditions for and gains admittance to the High School of Music and Art (M&A) for his stunning drawings of wolves, designs he created for his gang, the Silver Wolves. The year is 1952. While a student at M&A he meets Merle, who is the smartest girl he’s ever met. She is a student journalist for the school newspaper and wheelchair-bound, a survivor of polio, which makes her something like an outcast. Their relationship grows, deepens, and becomes