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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 on Long Island, each in their own way struggling for a better world. At the heart of the story is Josie, a young woman whose fraught relation...

Ava, Mila, and Rosalyn all work at Murray's Diner in Long Island. They are friends and coworkers struggling to hold together their disordered lives. While Ava privately grieves the loss of her husband in the first Iraq War, Mila struggles to dissuade her seventeen-year-old daughter from enlisting in the second. Rosalyn works as an escort by night until love and illness conspire to disrupt the tenuous balance she'd found and the past she'd kept...

The New York Times Notable first novel of the Vietnam War's devastating impact on the American home.