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"Dark and intense...lyrical...Moody and atmospheric, this gritty tale is worth a look."
In 1948, Louise Galle, a chemist and former Rosie-the-Riveter, is pursued by a wounded veteran who, with her deceased husband, was a prisoner in the Philippines during World War II. In New York City in 1964, Louise's daughter Charlotte falls for the butch next door and receives an undeniable call to make art. The Good War unfolds over the course of watershed summers in the lives of two very different women who share a desire to make it new even as they reckon with painful truths. Atmospheric, lyrical, and psychologically astute, The Good War is for anyone who knows that there is always more to the story of what America was and is.
"In The Good War, Costello captures post-war America with emotional depth and storytelling verve. Atmospheric and moving, the novel lays bare the inheritances of generational experience, the intensely intimate personal choices in love and also the familial wreckage of war, with characters who aim for forgiveness and understanding. Best of all, the two women at the center of this novel emerge, with subtle and surprising agency, at the helms of their own lives."
Lucy Jane Bledsoe, author of Tell the Rest and A Thin Bright Line
Elizabeth Costello's debut novel, The Good War, is now available for preorder from Regal House Publishers. Costello's poetry and prose have appeared in venues including Fourteen Hills, Crab Orchard Review, SF Weekly, 7x7 and Collosus: Home, an anthology that supports Oakland's fair housing organization Moms4Housing. Her poetry chapbook RELIC (Two Way Mirror, 2020) can be found at Bird and Beckett Books in San Francisco.
Costello is a collaborator with the Bay Area dance company Moving Ground's NETWORK Project and, with poet and musician Alex Behr, she emcees "Hot Pockets" a night of readings from rock memoirs that takes place at Portland's Turn Turn Turn. An editor for UC Berkeley with deep roots in the Bay Area, Costello has lived in Portland, OR since 2021.
With Portland painter and Soliloquy fine arts owner, Ruth Meijier, and partners at The Writer's Block, Blackfish Gallery, and The Lobby, she co-founded ekphraestivalpdx, a collaboration among West Coast poets and visual artists. Follow ekphraestivalpdx on Instagram to learn about readings and exhibitions upcoming in April, 2025.
