The highly anticipated follow-up to Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever, The Evening Shades tells the story of two lonely people in a small Midwestern town and the dark secrets tormenting them . . .
One afternoon in the autumn of 1972, a lonely widow in Mt. Gilead, Illinois, makes the impromptu decision to rent out a room in her house to a stranger who has come to town. It is risky–she doesn’t know anything about him. But Edith Green can no longer bear a life lived alone. And Henry Dees is haunted by the past he carries with him from another small town, particularly by the death of a little girl that some people think was his fault. And slowly, Henry and Edith’s suspenseful dance between secrets and trust leads them to start revealing things to each other — and themselves …Author: Lee Martin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781685891732
Language: English
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