That war shadows me is a difficult truth, and for that I have my old neighborhood to thank. If war is the background to my novels about everyday life, it's because it's been in the air I breathed, which naturally means my characters breathe it, too.
Beverly Gologorsky is the author the just-published novel Stop Here ("a literary Hopper painting," Seven Stories Press). Her first novel, The Things We Do to Make it Home, was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book. In the Vietnam years, she was an editor of two political journals, Viet-Report and Leviathan and her contribution to feminism is noted in Feminists Who Changed America .
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