Only a teenager when her beloved father was murdered by his political opponents in Karachi, Fatima Bhutto grew up longing to build a happy family of her own. Many years on, a charismatic, alluring man entered her life, and promised to liberate her from the pain of her past. She believed him.
This is the story of how Fatima freed herself from the man’s manipulative, intoxicating hold. It’s a tale that crosses continents, and into myth and art, literature and astronomy. By Fatima’s side throughout is Coco: a small, ferociously loyal Jack Russell terrier.
The Hour of the Wolf weaves wolf ethnography with an examination of the author’s own repressed maternal instinct; Bhutto writes of caring for a pregnant Coco, of coercive attachments, of humanity’s connection to nature. Assembled from these reflections comes an intimate, beautiful memoir, and a powerful hymn to the solace of found family