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Jax, a magazine model, has had half her face destroyed in a bomb blast. Drowning in whiskey and self-loathing, she must rebuild her life now that her beauty is gone. Part love letter to New York, part social justice commentary, Moxie is a timely and raw portrayal of the sometimes self-destructive search for identity and redemption.
Price: $16.99
Pages: 240
Publisher: Tortoise Books
Imprint: Tortoise Books
Publication Date:
30 April 2019
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781948954020
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
FICTION / Feminist, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / General
"Poppe's writing is brisk, raw, and unflinching..." — Booklist
"I tore through Moxie. Alex Poppe has created a character whose jagged contradictions make you stare... [Jax's] a profane alcoholic with a poet's eye and turn of phrase, and her use of language elevates this book." — Zoe Zolbrod, author of The Telling and Currency
"Wow. I drank down the raw, profane, world-be-damned voice of Jacinda, aka Jax (the sexy protagonist of Poppe's high-octane first novel) in one long gulp." — Lesley Dormen, author of The Best Place to Be: A Novel in Stories.
"Moxie is an indie press book that deserves as much attention as it can get. It's smart, fierce, funny, and eventually, ever so slightly uplifting." — Read Her Like an Open Book
"Sentence fragments litter Moxie as a kind of linguistic shrapnel, accompanied by sharp, descriptive moments that leave the reader off-kilter as Jax goes about her day...Poppe has a deft hand with crude language and body horror and twists these moments into graceful linguistic play ..." — The Massachusetts Review
"I tore through Moxie. Alex Poppe has created a character whose jagged contradictions make you stare... [Jax's] a profane alcoholic with a poet's eye and turn of phrase, and her use of language elevates this book." — Zoe Zolbrod, author of The Telling and Currency
"Wow. I drank down the raw, profane, world-be-damned voice of Jacinda, aka Jax (the sexy protagonist of Poppe's high-octane first novel) in one long gulp." — Lesley Dormen, author of The Best Place to Be: A Novel in Stories.
"Moxie is an indie press book that deserves as much attention as it can get. It's smart, fierce, funny, and eventually, ever so slightly uplifting." — Read Her Like an Open Book
"Sentence fragments litter Moxie as a kind of linguistic shrapnel, accompanied by sharp, descriptive moments that leave the reader off-kilter as Jax goes about her day...Poppe has a deft hand with crude language and body horror and twists these moments into graceful linguistic play ..." — The Massachusetts Review