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BEVERLY GOLOGORSKY is the author of the acclaimed novel The Things We Do to Make it Home, originally published by Random House in 1999, reissued by Seven Stories in 2009, named a Notable Book by the New York Times, Best Fiction by Los Angeles Times, and a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great Writers Award. Her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines, including the New York Times, Newsweek,The Nation, and the LA Times. Former editor of two political journals, Viet-Report and Leviathan, she is acknowledged in the publication Feminists Who Changed America. She lives in New York and Maine.
The hard realities associated with growth, change, love, and death affect all, but the repercussions seem especially gritty in this working-class setting. Gologorsky's writing is clean and spare as she gives each character her or his own specific voice and presents an unflinching, caring view of the world, well worth our time to see. --Danise Hoover, Booklist The author treats each singular story line with insight, compassion, and no sentimentality. -- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review 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. This book is filled with an array of characters whose bravery is unsung, women who persevere with a dignity unseen by many, until Gologorsky pulls the curtain back and allows us in. --Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge PRAISE FOR The Things We Do to Make It Home 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 Evocative....[A] powerful tale....the characters stick with you. -- USA Today Haunting....A novel brimming with burning emotion. -- Booklist
