Book description
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…
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This is Lee Martin’s follow up to his Pultizer Prize for Fiction finalist The Bright Forever. From the very first page, I knew I was in the hands of a master storyteller. The prose spare and evocative, this novel once again reveals the often-forgotten voices of the heartland and brings Harry Dees, the enigmatic math teacher featured in The Bright Forever, in full focus as he leaves the tiny Indiana town of Tower Hill, filled with tragedy and grief, and settles in Mount Gilead, Illinois, another little town where everyone’s business is an open book, except that visitor who comes…
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