Can You See the Wind?

A story of family--whether the one you inherit or the one you create--bound together and torn apart in the struggle for a better world.

Change rarely comes easily or without a fight. In her much-anticipated fourth novel Beverly Gologorsky takes a close, loving look at the members of a working-class family in the Bronx, each in their own way struggling for a better world. At the heart of the story is Josie, a young woman whose fraught relationship with her family is further stretched by her commitment to anti-Vietnam War activities and her deepening relationship with a rising star in the Black Panther Party. Her brother Johnny is a police officer, rough and judgmental. Closest in age to Josie is sweet Richie, who, inexplicably to her, has just become an enlisted soldier. Her sister Celia is pulled toward activism in the women's fight for equality, but paralyzed by fear for her eldest son who may or may not have blown up an enlistment center. Their lives intertwine through acts of violence, loyalty, and, above all, the bonds of family love and loss. One thing is certain--that in the long run of life, change is inevitable.

Author: Beverly Gologorsky
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 01/25/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.04h x 4.65w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9781644211106


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/18/2021
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2021

About the Author
BEVERLY GOLOGORSKY 's first novel, The Things We Do to Make It Home, was acclaimed for its depiction of working-class lives--the mothers, sisters, wives and widows who carried on in the damaged wake of the Vietnam War. It was named 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. She is also the author of the novels Stop Here, which was a Reader's Digest Best Indy Novels of the Year, and Every Body Has A Story, about the dissolution of a family after eviction. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including the New York Times, Newsweek, and The Nation. A former editor of two political journals, Viet-Report and Leviathan, Gologorsky has contributed to Feminists Who Changed America, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides, and The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True-Life Tales of Friendships That Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away. She lives in New York.