Talking to the Wolf

By Rebecca Chace

"It's a story about how our ideas of success change over time, and the mysterious ways that our deepest friendships both hold us and release us."--Rene Steinke, novelist and National Book Award finalist
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 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1636284639
• ISBN13: 9781636284637
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 216 Pages