Fox

April 17, 2018novel | pb | 308 pgs5.5" x 8.5" 978-1-940953-76-2 Winner of the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature Best Book of 2018 at Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and the New Statesman "An astonishingly perceptive, elegantly witty, utterly original exploration of the age-old question ‘How Do Stories Come About.’" —Alberto Manguel With characteristic wit and narrative force, Fox takes us from Russia to Japan, through Balkan minefields and American road trips, and from the 1920s to the present, as it explores the power of storytelling and literary invention, notions of betrayal, and the randomness of human lives and biographies.  Using the duplicitous and shape-shifting fox of Eastern folklore as a motif, Ugresic constructs a novel that reinvents itself over and over, blending nuggets of literary trivia (like how Nabokov named the Neonympha dorothea dorothea butterfly after the woman who drove him cross-country), with the timeless story of a woman trying to escape her hometo