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The Evening Road
The Evening Road | Laird Hunt
7 posts | 7 read | 6 to read
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 blood hounds 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.
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Addison_Reads
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Mehso-so

I picked this book up randomly at my library to fulfill my #Indiana requirement for #ReadingUSA2019.

This book reads like it was set in the deep South. The reader gets a glimpse inside the mind of various characters during a terrible event, a lynching.

The book angered me and saddened me a lot. Given the time frame of the story though, the author did a great job of capturing conflicting mindsets of all people involved.

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WanderingBookaneer
The Evening Road | Laird Hunt
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The Litsyverse has not been kind in reviewing this one, but I'm intrigued.

BookishMarginalia Sounds like it's up your alley! 7y
LeahBergen Me, too, and that cover's great. 7y
Jas16 This is a book I have been curious about so I will be interested in your opinion. 7y
minkyb Will be waiting to hear your opinion. 7y
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volatilestatic
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Pickpick

This has been my life the past few days: Powerade and books because I've been sick.

So, The Evening Road. I thought it was pretty good, in that the story was interesting and I liked the characters (though it seems I'm alone in that opinion) as well as the Faulkner-esque narrative structure and characterization. I haven't read a lot of books about the Midwest. Perhaps I should work on that.

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PandaPanda
The Evening Road | Laird Hunt
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Mehso-so

Really had a hard time with this one! I liked the language and in a way the premise but I had a lot of trouble staying engaged. The second half was definitely better than the first but I still found myself checking to see how much I had left.

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PandaPanda
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Having a hard time getting through this! Unlikeable characters have me not feeling super invested. Really vividly and beautifully written though so I am not ready to give up yet! 📖📚😕

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HeidiG
The Evening Road | Laird Hunt
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Ottie Lee and Calla's lives intersect on the road to Marvel, IN in another breathtakingly well written novel by Laird Hunt. This time he tackles race, class, and gender built around the story of a public lynching of three black men. How Hunt writes so well in women's voices across times and places is God's own little miracle. Read it NOW for its challenging topic and its gorgrous prose.