{"product_id":"can-you-see-the-wind-isbn-9781644211106","title":"Can You See the Wind?","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChange 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.\"Beverly Gologorsky brings a clarity of vision and purpose to this extraordinary novel—a story about the complexities and love that both bring families, lovers and comrades together and tears them apart. \u003ci\u003eCan You See the Wind?\u003c\/i\u003e renders the urgency of political movements as well as moments of individual contemplation. That she does so in breathtaking prose is a testament to her brilliance and artistry.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eFarah Jasmine Griffin\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith her usual honest, frank and perceptive style, Beverly Gologorsky has written a penetrating novel about the era of the Vietnam War and Black Panthers that explores the moral complexities of political activism and how they interact with love and family. \u003ci\u003eCan You See the Wind?\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting read.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eHelen Benedict\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Good Deed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWolf Season\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"The author’s prose sings. ... Readers will ... appreciate this apt depiction from the front lines of a difficult time in the nation’s history.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The New Left, the anti-war movement, the Black Panthers, and women’s liberation intersect in this ambitious recap of ordinary lives exploded by the social movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... In this novel, the personal is political and vice versa.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A riveting story that retrieves for us all a piece of our history­­—a few transformational years between 1967 and 1971—the overlapping crises of racism and war, struggles for peace, Black liberation, and early feminist awakenings—all against formidable odds. Gologorsky weaves the complex threads into a tight fabric of gorgeous, spare writing about political resistance, a passionate love affair, and a family saga—a story of our collective past told through the lives of unforgettable characters. And in a kind of miraculous way it becomes as well a story of our own time—its upheavals, uncertainties, and commitments, the slow pace of change and the redemption of action and of love.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJane Lazarre\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Communist and The Communist’s Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir, and \u003ci\u003eBreaking Light,\u003c\/i\u003e poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beverly Gologorsky may be our wisest chronicler of the lives of working-class women, shining her light on the deepest truths as only a profoundly gifted novelist can do. \u003ci\u003eCan You See the Wind?\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunningly moving story about the devastation of the Vietnam War on a single family. It is also a story of courage, resilience, friendship, and unbreakable love.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDawn Raffel\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Case of Dr. Couney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Women and poets see the truth arrive.\/Then it is acted out,\/The lives are lost, and all the newsboys shout,” wrote Muriel Rukeyser. Taut with the urgency of direct action, \u003ci\u003eCan You See the Wind?\u003c\/i\u003e indelibly portrays one such seer caught up in the 1960s anti-war movement. Naive and brave, self-doubting yet determined, young Josie bursts with a passion to interrupt the destruction in Southeast Asia; for her, the catastrophe is deeply personal, given how many boys from her hardscrabble Bronx neighborhood are getting drafted or enlisting. Of particular note is this novel’s honesty about the price of activism, given the stranglehold of all those ligatures of injustice—gendered, racial, and class-based—that have choked American life from that day to this. Tragic and tender, furious and inspired, \u003ci\u003eCan You See the Wind?\u003c\/i\u003e movingly suggests that the “better world” we long for is not an object in the future but a space of freedom and connection forged by struggle in the present.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJan Clausen\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eVeiled Spill: A Sequence\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Utterly fantastic and completely believable\"—Ron Jacobs, \u003ci\u003eCounterpunch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBEVERLY GOLOGORSKY\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eThe Things We Do to Make It Home\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book, a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Fiction book, and a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great Writers Award. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e. A former editor of two political journals, \u003ci\u003eViet-Report\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLeviathan\u003c\/i\u003e, Gologorsky has contributed to\u003ci\u003eFeminists Who Changed America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePatriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True-Life Tales of Friendships That Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York and Maine.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300392489189,"sku":"NP9781644211106","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644211106.jpg?v=1767723331","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/can-you-see-the-wind-isbn-9781644211106","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}