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      The Evening Shades

      by Lee Martin
      Published
      Mar 2025
      Main Genre
      Historical Historical
      Pages
      320
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      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 ...

      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      General Fiction

      Subgenres

      Historical Literary

      Themes

      Small Town

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      First Edition Mar 2025 Melville House Publishing ISBN 168589173X
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