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Kneeling before a 400-lb. concrete obelisk in the hills northwest of Los Angeles, Maureen Clemmons mutters a prayer to the ancient Egyptian god of wind. An hour passes. Then a strong gust straightens the lines that attach the obelisk to two nylon kites, shaped like the ones used in...
For three years, Clemmons, 42, who runs a hair-care-products company and has no formal scientific training, has devoted her spare time and more than $10,000 of her own money to solving everyone's favorite engineering enigma: how the Egyptian pyramids were built. Over the years, researchers have...
Inspired by winds that buffet her home in Reseda, Calif., each November, Clemmons recalled that even stronger winds blow in Egypt from February through June. Then she remembered that the Egyptians mass-produced linen for sailcloth, and that some of their hieroglyphs suggest that the pyramids were raised by "invisible...
Clemmons' cemetery humor keeps grief and the black dog at bay. His wife Phoebe died in a traffic accident and left him with three children to raise. Margy is a full-figured twelve-year-old with well-developed defenses against rutting boys. Younger Ruthann has a scholarly bent but is...
...contemporary standards the Clemmonses are a messed-up conventional family. But how parents and siblings interact during the children's crucial teen years is conveyed in ways that may be unfamiliar. Chase subordinates plot to an arrangement of domestic crises and adolescent rituals. The passage of time is more impressionistic than chronological. Points of view are fluid and exclusively female. The wolves of the title are the male characters, whose sex drives are less complicated than those of the Clemmons girls or their stepmother. Men seem interested in only one thing, or at least in one thing at a time...