""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