The Evening Road

De: Laird Hunt

Narrado por: Pyeng Threadgill

Two women, two directions: one dark, extraordinary day.

Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling, challenging beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and, on one day in the summer of 1930, an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and fearful celebration.

Meet Calla Destry, a determined young woman desperate to escape the violence of her town and to find the lover who has promised her a new life.

On this day the countryside of Jim Crow-era Indiana is no place for either. It is a world populated by frenzied demagogues and crazed revelers, by marauding vigilantes and grim fish suppers, by possessed bloodhounds and, finally, by the Ku Klux Klan itself.

Reminiscent of the works of Louise Erdrich, Edward P. Jones, and Marilynne Robinson, The Evening Road is the story of two remarkable women on the move through an America riven by fear and hatred, and eager to flee the secrets they have left behind.

©2017 Laird Hunt (P)2017 Hachette Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Hunt's new book raises his own high bar further with an almost fablelike view of prejudice and cruelty some 60 years after emancipation.... Hunt finds history or the big events useful framing devices, but he is more interested in how words can do justice to single players and life's fraught moments. Hunt brings to mind Flannery O'Connor's grotesques and Barry Hannah's bracingly inventive prose and cranks. He is strange, challenging, and a joy to read." ( Kirkus)

Masterful Writing

Masterful Writing and excellent story telling. The vivid description of scenes, characters and the awesome flow of dialog are classic Faulkner.

2 perspectives were amazing !!! 3rd=turd

This book was fantastic!!! All the way until the crazy broads perspective it kinda took away from the impactful performance.

Worth a credit

I just love how the author writes. Even if I don’t get an ending I am always happy to have listened.