The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right

“What a book! Gologorsky is at her best, weaving a tapestry of the lives of very real people, people whose lives deserve her care, her unsparing eye, and her compassion. Here is a story that cuts to the core of the way things are, and the way they can -- all of a sudden -- become. You heart might be ripped out by this book, but it will get placed back inside with a larger capacity to love and beat on -- what a book, indeed.”—Elizabeth Strout, author of My Name is Lucy Barton and Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge

 “Gologorsky plumbs the lives of working people in America. Economic crisis can strike suddenly. Families can fall apart and mend again. Love is deep--both powerful and fragile--but never simple. Everybody does have a story, and Gologorsky’s compassion and knowledge of the human heart reveals the unspoken emotional layers in marriage, parenthood, friendship, and in unexpected love. In beautiful and lucid prose, the story of two families caught in some of the most difficult contemporary crosscurrents builds to a crescendo with memorable characters that remain with the reader. A deep and gripping novel until the very last words.”—Jane Lazarre, author of Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons

Praise of previous books: The Things We Do to Make It Home (New York Times Notable Book, Los Angeles Times Best Fiction, finalist for Barnes & Nobles Discovery of Great Writers Awards)

“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.”—New York Times Book Review

Stop Here (an Indie Next Pick and Reader’s Digest Best Indy Novels of the Year) “Gologorsky’s . . . . novel. . . . examines the lives of working-class families impacted by war. . . . The author treats each singular story line with insight, compassion, and no sentimentality.”—Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)