Bonnie Friedman on tour 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

“Don’t Stop is a masterly portrait of Ina, a 41-year-old married woman on the run from the prosaic and the unexciting in her life. Her fearless search for deeply buried erotic desires allows her to reevaluate her complex relationships and open a hidden door into her true self. It is a powerful and moving story of urgent quest and stunning self-discovery, a book you won't be able to put down.”—Elena Gorokhova, author of A Train to Moscow

“I’ve been waiting my whole life for this novel, a book that’s as sexy as it is smart, as sophisticated as it is compelling. You don’t have to pick between body and brains with Bonnie Friedman’s Don’t Stop, a novel that has it all. I’m going to quick join a book group so I can dish about Don’t Stop with a bunch of ladies over a bottle of wine. Joyous, provocative, propulsive, Don’t Stop is destined to be the best book club book ever.”—Pamela Redmond, New York Times best-selling author of Younger

“Long one of our finest writers of literary nonficton, Bonnie Friedman now makes a triumphant debut as a novelist. Don’t Stop is warm, moving, frequently hilarious, and bursting with life.”—Brian Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening and Tasha: A Son’s Memoir

“Neither raucous nor raunchy... this is a well-mannered and funny novel about what happens when the heart rebels against the mind, and the body demands that “‘what was growling up from deep within you didn’t deserve to be ignored.’”—Kirkus Reviews

“This coming-of-middle-age story explores a woman’s obsessive affair and the unraveling of her life... A fiction debut that will appeal to fans of Miranda July’s All Fours.”—Booklist