"Bravo to Patricia Dunn for creating this uniquely powerful journey from which it is nearly impossible to turn away."

Mary Calvi twelve-time Emmy® award winning journalist. Anchor for CBS News and Inside Edition. Author of “Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington’s First Love.” Mary is also First Lady of the City of Yonkers, New York.

“If you like quick-witted, fast-talking and street-smart characters who have big dilemmas and even bigger hearts, look no further than Patricia Dunn’s  Last Stop on the 6. This is a story of wars we fight, ones in faraway lands as well as in the places we call home. For suspense, humor and that singular variety of Bronx-born tough love with a little hope mixed in, give this read.”

Kathy Curto, author of  Not for Nothing: Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood

“Last Stop on the 6  is a rip-roaring love song to the Bronx, a coming-of-age story about the places that make us, that we try so hard to leave, and that so often pull us home. Set at the dawn of the Gulf War, it tells the story of a young woman grappling with warring identities: that of her upbringing in working-class, Catholic, Italian-American Pelham Bay and her new life as a Birkenstock-wearing, vegetarian anti-war activist in Los Angeles. At turns deeply poignant and uproariously funny, it asks whether we can reconcile the selves pressed upon us and those we build on our own—if we can ever really go home, and if we ever really leave. Part raucous caper, part  My Brilliant Friend, and simmering like a meaty Sunday gravy with the depths of hope and grief that live in the promise of the American Dream,  Last Stop on the 6  explores the limits of loyalty and faith—to family, to country, to God—and how far we’ll go to protect the people we love. You don’t have to be a working-class Italian-American with roots in Naples to love this book, but if, like me, you are, you’ll find yourself startlingly seen in these pages. Beyond those borders of identity, though, Patricia Dunn has written a powerfully universal story of family, love, and belonging that, no matter where you come from, feels a lot like coming home.”

Melissa Faliveno,  author of  TomboyLand, named by  NPR, New York Public Library,  O, the Oprah Magazine, and  Electric Literature as a best book of 2020.

“Last Stop on the 6  is the  return of the prodigal daughter to a world of long-buried hurts, political complexities, and female resilience. Dunn has introduced me to characters all possessing questions for which there are no  easy answers--only the  slow and steady  re-awakenings of familial bonds and moral responsibility. A heartfelt work of art.”

Carolyn Ferrell, author of Dear Miss Metropolitan and Don't Erase Me

“In this fiercely tender portrait of a Bronx family,  Last Stop on the 6  follows Angela, a community activist who goes home for her brother’s wedding after ten years away. Painful emotions resurface as she realizes the people she left behind aren’t that different, and while on a humorous hunt for her missing brother, she reckons with how one terrible night changed the siblings' lives forever. A moving story with lots of lighthearted moments,  Last Stop on the 6  shows us how making amends with our troubled past may be the only way to grow closer to the ones we love.”

Brooke Lea Foster,  author of the novel  Summer Darlings

“Last Stop on the 6   has a heroine, Angela, who knows what's good for everyone else. And like Emma, she learns the about the limitations of her power and her vision, as this dazzling, perfectly paced novel turns like a kaleidoscope, with each chapter revealing something subtly different about the neighborhood, her family, their relationships, and her past. We read with delight because  Last Stop on the 6  is artful and elegant and we experience what we read as just like real life, because our view of these people and the world around them keeps changing.  Last Stop is both painful and comedic, a perfectly paced dance through politics, aspiration, family, and Italian- American life in the Bronx. You'll be happy when you're reading it, and sad when you are done.” 

Myra Goldberg, author of  Whistling and Rosalind: A Family Romance       

“Dazzling and heartening plunge into a complex Bronx family, generous with secrets and ambitions to save each other and the world. Dunn writes with verve and eloquence in this deftly told, gorgeously crafted story that crackles with wry humor and remarkable observations about love, departure, and its aftermath.”

Jimin Han, author of A Small Revolution

“Last Stop on the 6  is one of the funniest books I’ve read - laugh out loud funny - and one of the wisest. The narrator, Angela Campanosi, brings into teeming and uproarious life the neighborhood where she grew up when she returns after a decade away and learns some of the ingredients of a long-postponed reconciliation with her family: restored memory, humility, and and a willingness to be loved. And fluttering around the novel is the holy moth whose story of capture and escape illuminates all the others. A miracle."

Kathleen Hill,  author  of Still Waters in Niger, Who Occupies This House, and She Read to Us in the Late Afternoons

“At times hilarious, at times heartbreaking, Pat Dunn’s new novel Last Stop on the 6 is a highly original and penetrating story of the everlasting reach of family and home. Set against the backdrop of the Gulf War, the novel follows activist Angela Campanosi as she returns home for her brother’s wedding some ten years after a tragedy that sent her fleeing. Fast-paced and peopled with a colorful and entertaining cast of characters, the book is a unique and thoroughly enjoyable read that will leave you thinking about your own family story – and how much of it, to this day, still makes you who you are.”

Barbara Josselsohn, author of  THE LILY GARDEN,  THE BLUEBELL GIRLS, and  THE LILAC HOUSE 

 “All families—but Italian-American families in particular, it seems—have their dramas and their conflicts. Patricia Dunn has created a fictional family into which we want to be invited as guests, despite their problems, confusions, and intrigues. The Bronx, New York, family Dunn has rendered is one in which love ultimately prevails, whether it’s tough love, romantic love, or familial love. These are characters you will want to know and live with through her novel. Get on that 6 train now and take it until the last stop." 

David Masello, cultural writer and columnist, executive editor of  Milieu, author of  Architecture Without Rules,  Art in Public Places, and a forthcoming book from Rizzoli

“Why do families consist of people telling each other what to do? This implacable human mystery is the heart of a surprising, outrageous, and terrific novel about a prodigal daughter’s return to the Bronx, armed with regret, muddled memories, and integrity.  A superb book that I couldn’t stop reading.”

Joan Silber,  Author of  Secrets of Happiness, Ideas of Heaven, and  Improvement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award.