Talking to the Wolf

Description

“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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Rebecca Chace
Published: 05/19/2026
Publisher: Red Hen Press
ISBN: 9781636284620
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 0.50″ H x 8.50″ L x 5.50″ W

About the Author

Rebecca Chace is the award-winning author of Leaving Rock Harbor (New York Times Editor’s Choice; New England Book Awards Finalist, June Indie Notable Book); Capture the Flag; Chautauqua Summer (New York Times Notable and Editor’s Choice); June Sparrow and The Million Dollar Penny (middle-grade). She is also the author of plays, screenplays, and literary essays. She has written for The New York Times, The LA Review of Books, The Yale Review, Guernica, Lit Hub, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other publications. Grants and fellowships include Civitella Ranieri, MacDowell, Yaddo, American Academy in Rome (visiting artist), Dora Maar House, and many others. She is faculty associate and program manager at the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.