The Angle of Falling Light

“Gologorsky is the best writer of working-class fiction writing today. [She] … turns these lives into moments of beauty, sometimes forlorn, sometimes violent, occasionally tragic and always intrinsically human. She writes in the spirit of Greek tragedies, only in a setting defined by late stage capitalism.”
—Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch

“Set during the ‘forever wars’ that followed 9⁄11, The Angle of Falling Light movingly explores the demons that survivors must wrestle with in the wake of tragedy. Beverly Gologorsky brings us a great cast of characters, at their center three working-class women trying to shape lives of their own in a world that seems to promise them nothing but deadening repetition. Brave and faltering, they face daunting conundrums of love, care, and the pull of freedom. Gologorsky’s unsparing vision of the bleakness so rampant in a nation addicted to combat and inequality only renders more compelling her portraits of these women bound and determined to ‘make a way from no way.’”
—Jan Clausen, author of Apples & Oranges

“Her characters live in the long shadow of history, but are never merely products of it; they endure, misstep, connect, and carry on in ways that feel recognizably human. That sensibility of looking closely, of honoring the weight of everyday experience runs through both Beverly Gologorsky’s work and her words. … [I am] grateful that there are novelists who not only imagine the real-life effects of history, but allow us to see them too.”
—Michael M. Yell, The Union

Beverly Gologorsky’s first book, the novel The Things We Do to Make it Home, published by Random House, was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Best Fiction book, and a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great Writers Award. About her second novel, Stop Here, Publishers Weekly wrote, “The author treats each singular story line with insight, compassion and no sentimentality.” Her third novel, Can You See the Wind? was described by Ron Jacobs in Counterpunch as “utterly fantastic and completely believable.” Describing Gologorsky’s fourth novel, Every Body Has a Story, Elizabeth Strout wrote, “Your heart might be ripped out by this book, but it will get placed back inside with a larger capacity to love and beat on.” And now in The Angle of Falling Light, she presents one of her most unforgettable heroines in Tessa, as the author continues her novel cycle of our contemporary American tragedy and the attempts of her characters to avert it, one by one.

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