Can You See the Wind?
  • Published: 1 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9781644211106
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $39.99

Can You See the Wind?

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8 Feb 2022
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1 Feb 2022
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A story of family--whether the one you inherit or the one you create--bound together and torn apart in the struggle for a better world.

A story of family--whether the one you inherit or the one you create--bound together and torn apart in the struggle for a better world.

Change rarely comes easily or without a fight. In her much-anticipated fourth novel Beverly Gologorsky takes a close, loving look at the members of a working-class family in the Bronx, each in their own way struggling for a better world. At the heart of the story is Josie, a young woman whose fraught relationship with her family is further stretched by her commitment to anti-Vietnam War activities and her deepening relationship with a rising star in the Black Panther Party. Her brother Johnny is a police officer, rough and judgmental. Closest in age to Josie is sweet Richie, who, inexplicably to her, has just become an enlisted soldier. Her sister Celia is pulled toward activism in the women's fight for equality, but paralyzed by fear for her eldest son who may or may not have blown up an enlistment center. Their lives intertwine through acts of violence, loyalty, and, above all, the bonds of family love and loss. One thing is certain--that in the long run of life, change is inevitable.
  • Published: 1 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9781644211106
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $39.99
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Praise for Can You See the Wind?

"Unflinching, piercing, Gologorsky looks straight into the face of class in this country, capturing the reverberations across generations of who really fights our wars, who really serves our coffee, who really gets up in the dark to wipe the diners' counter clean." --Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge on Stop Here
"Stunning ... Lean and supple, completely persuasive, full of nuanced turns, dead on about how people try to bind and repel each other at the same time." -The New York Times Book Review on The Things We Do to Make It Home
"In prose as tender and historically detailed as Alice McDermott's, Beverly Gologorsky weaves a tale of two hard-working and endearing couples sent head-over-heels by the sudden economic reversals to which the non-rich are so subject. As much a story about marital and parental love as it is about the precariousness of working class life, this novel makes us fall for each of its characters, even as they make their deeply human mistakes. Timeless and essential, Every Body Has a Story is utterly spellbinding." --Helen Benedict, author of Wolf Season and Sand Queen on Every Body Tells a Story
"Haunting ... A novel brimming with burning emotion." - Booklist on The Things We Do to Make It Home

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