Stop Here

(Paperback)

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Stop Here is a 'novel in stories' that narrates the private and emotionally interconnected lives of several women who work at a Long Island diner. While Ava privately grieves the loss of her husband in the first Iraq War, Mila struggles to dissuade her 17-year-old daughter from enlisting in the second. Rosalyn works as an escort by night until love and illness conspire to disrupt the tenuous balance she has found. Ultimately it is love - for one another and for their wayward families - that sustains them through the pain and uncertainty of a world with no easy answers.

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"The hard realities associated with growth, change, love, and death affect all, but the repercussions seem especially gritty in this working-class setting. Gologorskys 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

"Like her acclaimed first novel, The Things We Do to Make it Home, Stop Here explores the lives of working-class women (struggling to make ends meet at a roadside diner in Long Island) through the lens of war, destruction, loss, and economic struggle. In simple and striking prose, Gologorsky weaves each womans story together to form a complete picture of the tragedies and triumphs of four ordinary friends and coworkers against the backdrop of a nation at war." Veteran Feminists of America

"Notice themthat is one of thoughts I carried with me after finishing this fine novelthey are more interesting than you imagine, and might know some things that you badly need to learn." Akshay Ahuja, The Occasional Review

Author Bio

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.