Wolf Bells

”Unflinching, hilarious, and radical. In Wolf Bells, Leni Zumas has written the most humane of books; an essential and audacious novel that we need, urgently, in these fearful, fearsome times. Wolf Bells challenges us to imagine a new way of living; in true community, mutually caring and compassionate and free to speak our dissent. I would love to live in The House, the fictional residence Zumas has created, with all its aches and pains and complications and tender, precarious solidarity.”
Miriam Toews, WOMEN TALKING

“At once a fable, a cautionary tale, a sitcom, an elegy, and a no-frills utopian roadmap, Wolf Bells howls with the thrill of life and death intertwined. This is a brave book about trauma and persistence, aging and intergenerational kinship, and the frustration, conflict, and connection in caring for one another. Reshaping the world out of a broken history, Leni Zumas shows us how to dream.”
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, TOUCHING THE ART

“With the precision of a cartographer of the human heart, Wolf Bells navigates the ways the oldest and the youngest, the queer and the marginalized are forced to live along the fault lines of precarity. And with the tenderness of an attentive and honest lover, she guides us towards a world that is not only better but possible.”
Mona Eltahawy, THE SEVEN NECESSARY SINS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS

“Wolf Bells will make you weep, I promise. Weep for radical possibilities of community. Weep for the cruelty of systems. Weep for the deep, fully human characters present in these pages. I am always blown away by Leni Zumas, who is, hands down, one of the finest novelists writing today. This is a novel that will be read for generations.”
Emme Lund, THE BOY WITH A BIRD IN HIS CHEST