SOURCE: Seaman, Donna. Review of Werewolves in Their Youth, by Michael Chabon. Booklist (15 December 1998): 726.

In the following review of Werewolves in Their Youth, Seaman commends the volume for its remarkable prose, inventive stories, and richly textured narratives.

In his fourth book [Werewolves in Their Youth], Chabon again displays his nimble irony, sense of narrative adventure, flair for constructing astonishingly thorny predicaments, and remarkable facility with language. If there is a shared theme among the nine glimmering stories collected here, it is the puzzlements of fatherhood. In “Green's Book,” a divorced father of a toddler, the charming Jocelyn, feels rueful about his career as a family therapist. In the delectably complex “The Harris Fetko Story.” a grown son is reconciled with his estranged father at the bris of his baby stepbrother. And finally, in the wrenching “Son of the Wolfman,” a husband struggles mightily to summon the strength to...