Every Body has a Story

“What a book! Gologorsky is at her best, weaving a tapestry of the lives of very real people, people whose lives deserve her care, her unsparing eye, and her compassion. Here is a story that cuts to the core of the way things are, and the way they can -- all of a sudden -- become. You heart might be ripped out by this book, but it will get placed back inside with a larger capacity to love and beat on -- what a book, indeed.”—Elizabeth Strout, author of My Name is Lucy Barton and Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge

"I read Every Body Has a Story over the  past few summer weeks -- sitting on a bench in Central Park -- and was  engulfed in memories of what happened to ordinary Americans 10 years  ago when Lehman Brothers folded, the market crashed, recession drilled  deep into the marrow of the country, and tens of millions of lives  were thrown into turmoil from which many have yet to recover (a factor  in Trump’s election). I was on PBS then with my weekly series and  caught some of the drama and trauma. Beverly Gologorsky has made real the experience of falling... falling... and landing, like those Thai  kids trapped at the bottom of the drop. I grew up with people like  that who had been felled by the Great Depression and I kept seeing  some of them in the characters in her story. I've also been working on  a series about what happened to the families of farmers and workers  during the first Gilded Age and, while reading this book, couldn’t get  them out of my head. All I'm saying is that Every Body Has a  Story may be fiction, but I've not seen more reality in a novel in a long, long time." —Bill Moyers

"Every Body Has a Story is an emotionally taut tale that is also a specific, personal and unbending critique of the system of neoliberal capitalism." —CounterPunch

"Every Body Has a Story is a compelling story of the shattering and rebuilding of home and heart. Gologorsky tells a tale of today’s impaired Americana, where the unthinkable, inescapable, and raw pressures of economically and emotionally strapped life can irrevocably alter relationships, identities, and any semblance of stability. With gripping prose, she provides us a front-row seat in the lives of two families, headed by couples that evolve from carefree to burdened at the hands of fate and high finance." —Nomi Prins, Author of All the Presidents’ Bankers and Collusion

"Far from the headlines of the Ponzi schemes and the bailouts of banks engaged in unethical home mortgage practices, Beverly Gologorsky’s novel, Every Body Hasa Story, takes an impassioned and unflinching look at two couples who have willed themselves out of the dire circumstances of their childhoods, only to become adults facing the realization that the promises and commitments made in their youth have not played out in the lives they’ve actually lived. In prose that is pitch perfect in every detail that matters, Gologorsky gives us characters who are unpredictably truthful and achingly alive, as the bonds of marriage, friendship and between parents and children are tested nearly to the point of breaking. Every Body Has A Story gives voice to the unheralded predicaments and triumphs of Americans living in the real time of here and now." —Wesley Brown, author of Darktown Strutters and Dance of the Infidels

Praise of previous books: The Things We Do to Make It Home (New York Times Notable Book, Los Angeles Times Best Fiction, finalist for Barnes & Nobles Discovery of Great Writers Awards)

“Stunning. . . .Lean and supple, completely persuasive, full of nuanced turns, dead on about how people try to bind and repel each other at the same time.”—New York Times Book Review

Stop Here (an Indie Next Pick and Reader’s Digest Best Indy Novels of the Year) “Gologorsky’s . . . . novel. . . . examines the lives of working-class families impacted by war. . . . The author treats each singular story line with insight, compassion, and no sentimentality.”—Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)