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Talking to the Wolf

by Rebecca Chace

A friendship revisited across thirty-five years

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    Praise from Lauren Groff

    Lauren Groff calls the novel “Evocative, rich, and simply bursting with rage and love. A gorgeous novel.”

AlbakiReads Editorial

A friendship revisited across thirty-five years

Four former friends gather for a high school reunion dinner in New York City, where a surprise snowstorm frames their encounter. One member of the original quartet has died, and her absence is part of the history the survivors carry into the present. The group’s varied lives—a failed rock musician, an awarded scientist, a work-absorbed misanthrope, and the absent friend—set the reunion against the long shifts in identity and connection that shape female friendship. The novel’s scope spans decades, with attention to ruptures and the possibility of reconciliation among women who once formed a close-knit group.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in novels about female friendship across decades.
  • Readers drawn to reunion stories shaped by loss, old conflicts, and reconciliation.
  • Readers who enjoy fiction centered on a group of women with contrasting lives and identities.

Themes

Female friendshipFriendship breakups and reconciliationMemory and the pastLoss

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Book overview

"Evocative, rich, and simply bursting with rage and love. A gorgeous novel."--Lauren Groff, bestselling author of Fates and Furies

Talking to the Wolf is a poignant and haunting exploration of female friendship that unearths the past and the ghosts we carry into the present.
Four women. Thirty-five years. A lyrical and unsettling look at female friendship across time.
A failed rockstar, an awarded scientist, a work-obsessed misanthrope, and a ghost, whose untimely death ruptured the once-solid quartet, steel themselves for their thirty-fifth high school reunion dinner. Set during a surprise snowstorm in New York City the day of the reunion, Talking to the Wolf is a lyrical exploration of female friendship, friend breakups, and reconciliations across decades.

Like a Meg Wolitzer novel shot by filmmaker Nicole Holofcener and blessed by Virginia Woolf, Talking to the Wolf pole-vaults over the Bechdel Test.

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