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Friends Like Us
A strikingly wise exploration of the bonds people forge and break. Fox delivers on plot, but it’s her insight, emotion, and eye for universal truths that make Friends Like Us memorable. |
[Fox] infuses her writing with a clever, unforced humor. . . . As I finished Friends Like Us I did not despair, but reminisced about that bittersweet time of life that Fox captures perfectly with a writing style that rings with the familiarity of a long-lost friend. |
This novel is ultimately about trust, betrayal and forgiveness. Fox makes you care about Willa and everyone else in “Friends Like Us” long after you’ve finished. |
What elevates this book … are its deeper insights: that growing up is an absurdly nonlinear process, and that, as Willa asks, the real question is ‘How is it that we can live in this world, love people, and then say good-bye to them?’ |
In this charming novel from the critically acclaimed author of Still Life with Husband, 26-year-old Willa and her best friend Jane are inseparable—until Jane falls in love. |
Still Life with Husband
“A delightful new voice in American fiction, a voice that instantly recalls the wry, knowing prose of Lorrie Moore crossed with the screwball talents of the cartoonist Roz Chast.” |
“First novelist Lauren Fox is a smooth, wry writer. Her primary achievement is taking you on a slow-motion, step-by-step trip down the infamous slippery slope, showing you how a bored but decent woman starts on high, safe ground and ends up in a ditch.” |
“Still Life with Husband is a breath of fresh air… Fox’s narrator can be sharply witty, laugh-out-loud funny, or plaintively perceptive, depending on the situation – and sometimes all three at once.” |
Author Q & A's
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"Focus on the Work, Advises Fox"
An Authorlink interview By Columnist Ellen Birkett Morris October 1, 2015 "Reading List: Lauren Fox." Interview with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel September 14, 2012 "Lauren Fox’s 5 Favorite Books About Friendship." Vintage Books and Anchor Books Reading Group Center September 2012 "The Lauren Fox Interview." Interview with WBEZ Chicago July 13, 2012 Extended interview available here. "Lauren Fox’s 5 Things I’d Tell the Teen Me." Chick Lit is Not Dead March 6, 2012 "New Release feature Friends Like Us and Q&A w/Lauren Fox." Barnes and Noble Book Clubs February 14, 2012 |
"Q&A with author Lauren Fox."
Mrs. Mommy Booknerd February 14, 2012 "Lauren Fox talks about Friends Like Us." OnMilwaukee.com February 12, 2012 "Outfoxed: An Interview with Alumni Lauren Fox." University of Minnesota MFA Program November 28, 2011 Watch Me on The Morning Blend "Friends Like Us: An Interview with Lauren Fox." February 8, 2012 Hear Me on Lake Effect (WUWM) "Friends Like Us: An Interview with Lauren Fox." February 13, 2012 |
