I genuinely don't even know if I have the ability to talk about how much I took away from this novella. I can't say I enjoyed it, because it's not fun, but it affected me greatly as I read and was as mired in the main character Sean's thoughts and feelings as Sean is in the wolf she's neurally linked to.

While this novella has a sci-fi framework - Sean is a scientist who gets a neural link installed in her brain to link up with a wolf in the wild - it really is a character study. It focuses sharply on Sean's failing marriage, but it's not as simple as "main character is a workaholic". Sean is indeed a workaholic, but there's a toxicity to it that goes deeper than that label, and of course the rapidly declining state of her marriage forces her to find more attachment and meaning in her link with the wolf. 

It's all so...sad. And I'm not even sure how to feel about the ending, except that it seemed like the right ending for this character.

I don't know that this sort of character study will be for everyone, but I really did connect to Sean and her story as I read it, and that means everything.