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