The Pull of it
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Read an excerpt in the Bosphorus Review of Books

“Wendy J. Fox tells the story of a woman’s sudden escape from her familial life and responsibilities with such attention to the nuances and prickles that it’s impossible to look away. The language is crackling—the sentences get down to the tiniest particles of love and loss, as well as the mute rage of domestic life. There are wonderful notions here about the transcendent aspects of friendship and true presence, especially within the generous arms of another culture; how we are sometimes set adrift by our own conventions, only to be rescued in unknown territories by unexpected allies. The Pull of It is a fascinating, gorgeously written story of what it means to finally find home.” — ​Maria Mutch, author of Know the Night

The Seven Stages of Anger & Other Stories

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Download the Book Club Discussion Guide from Small Press Picks (Word Document)

“Wendy J. Fox’s stories capture a world of grit, sunlight, heat, love and lust—a fully Western world as spare, arresting and luminous in its details as the prose she uses to describe it. Populated with memorable, deadpan characters—wry, likable for their hidden strengths and never entirely unhopeful despite whatever hard luck they face—her stories often spin on metaphors so richly extended that their complexity takes on a life and force of its own. The end result is a vision as sharp, imaginative, full of longing and illuminated in poetry as any I’ve recently read. A fantastic debut and great new voice on the scene!” — Gregory Spatz, author of Half as Happy