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""Luminous, evocative, and original.""--Christina Baker Kline A daring, erotically charged novel about ambition, desire, and the dangerous pursuit of self-knowledge. Ina is a 41-year-old literary scholar on the cusp of professional success. With a coveted university job, a kind husband, and a book on Eugene O'Neill due in months, her life appears enviably stable. But when an impulsive kiss with a stranger shatters her self-control, Ina finds herself plunged into an erotic and emotional freefall. She tells herself it's research--a brief detour before returning to real life. But what begins as a flirtation becomes a reckoning with everything Ina thought she wanted: marriage, intellect, control. As she navigates the ecstatic confusion of newfound desire, she risks upending her work, her relationship, and her understanding of who she is. Set in Brooklyn and Manhattan at the turn of the millennium, Don't Stop is a bold, immersive debut that explores what happens when a woman dares to want more--of the world, of her body, of herself. Bonnie Friedman delivers a novel of transgression, transformation, and unapologetic longing. ""A moving, laser-eyed story about love, desire, betrayal, and destiny, which manages, mysteriously, to be simultaneously funny and profound.""--Michael Cunningham

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""With hypnotizing imagery, Don't Stop tells a compelling story of a scholar in search of satisfaction in her life whose quest leads her beyond the conundrum of her marriage, her family of origin, and her academic career, to a new realm she never imagined--the furthest reaches of her own sexuality. Where this takes her is the subject of this gorgeous depiction of the journey of a soul. This is one of those novels where readers will be as eager to keep turning the pages as they are to savor every sentence slowly. I hated for it to end.""--Alice Elliott Dark, author of Fellowship Point and In the Gloaming  ""In this daring, compelling novel, we are invited into the world of Ina, a 39-year-old woman embarking on a journey of self-discovery and awakening. Don't Stop elegantly uncovers the concealed dimensions of desire. It is luminous, evocative, and original.""--Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times best-selling novelist

Praise for Don't Stop ""With hypnotizing imagery, Don't Stop tells a compelling story of a scholar in search of satisfaction in her life whose quest leads her beyond the conundrum of her marriage, her family of origin, and her academic career, to a new realm she never imagined--the furthest reaches of her own sexuality. Where this takes her is the subject of this gorgeous depiction of the journey of a soul. This is one of those novels where readers will be as eager to keep turning the pages as they are to savor every sentence slowly. I hated for it to end.""--Alice Elliott Dark, author of  Fellowship Point and In the Gloaming  ""In this daring, compelling novel, we are invited into the world of Ina, a 41-year-old woman embarking on a journey of self-discovery and awakening. Don't Stop elegantly uncovers the concealed dimensions of desire. It is luminous, evocative, and original.""--Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times best-selling novelist Praise for Writing Past Dark ""A wonderful book, profoundly honest, intelligent, and beautifully written... Humor abounds in this bold and generous book... We cannot read this collection and come away unmoved.""--Harvard Review ""Intimate, honest, liberating.""--Forward Praise for The Thief of Happiness ""Strangely profound... [an author] with a great eye for detail.""--The Washington Post ""Compulsively readable.""--O: The Oprah Magazine ""Excellent in the way H.D.'s [Tribute to Freud] is: it illuminates the intricate, murky relationship between therapy and real life... Friedman is at her best when relaying the delicately nuanced exchanges that occur between the patient and therapist.""--Publishers Weekly Praise for Surrendering Oz: ""[A] fascinating read. Each of Friedman's observations is microscopic in its precision, but her collected wisdom, prolific and sprawling among so many topics, could fill a sea.""--The Rumpus ""One of the 10 great books by a small press. A top pick.""--Reader's Digest ""Almost an instructional manual for midlife... A must for students of creative writing.""--Library Journal ""I find my life on every page, it is universal. Every woman who can read should read this book.""--Abigail Thomas, A Three Dog Life

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Bonnie Friedman is the author of the bestselling Writing Past Dark, named one of the Essential Books for Writers by the Center for Fiction and Poets & Writers. She is also the author of The Thief of Happiness and Surrendering Oz, a finalist for the PEN Award in the Art of the Essay. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares and numerous other literary journals, and she has been named a notable essayist four times in The Best American Essays. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa, Dartmouth, NYU, and the University of North Texas. Don't Stop is her first novel.

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