The Evening Shades

By Lee Martin

Book Overview

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 ...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 168589173X
• ISBN13: 9781685891732
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.1"