Talking to the Wolf: A Novel by Rebecca Chace

and “Love, first periods, last periods, bullying mothers, disappeared fathers, crazy sisters, children unborn, found, or gone, parents dying too fast or too slow, this apartment, that apartment, an eyebrow raised across a crowded room.” Four women are steeling themselves for their 35th high school reunion dinner. Lifelong friends, they have seen each other through They are a failed rock star, an awarded scientist, a work-obsessed misanthrope — and one of them is a deeply grieved ghost, whose untimely death has ruptured the once-solid quartet. Set over the course of one day running up to the reunion as a surprise snowstorm falls over New York City, and moving amongst the four perspectives, TALKING TO THE WOLF is like a Meg Wolitzer novel shot by filmmaker Nicole Holofcenerand blessed by Virginia Woolf. (It pole-vaults over the Bechdel Test.)