Bonnie Friedman celebrates DON'T STOP with Alice Elliot Dark

Please join us here at Barnes & Noble Upper West Side in welcoming Bonnie Friedman celebrating the release of DON'T STOP with Alice Elliot Dark. A purchase of DON'T STOP from Barnes & Noble Upper West Side is required to join the signing line at this event. Please call ahead and speak to a bookseller and reserve your copy.

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.