Evening News Marly Swick by Marly Swick 9781861590985, 1861590989, B000Q80T3O instant download after payment.

Everywhere acclaimed for its acute emotional sensitivity and its astonishing narrative power, Evening News explores the world of a family devastated by loss as it takes us into the lives of a nine-year-old boy who shoots his young half-sister, of a stepfather who cannot forgive, and of a mother whose love for her son threatens to destroy her marriage.

"A book that lingers in the mind and heart."  -  St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Nine-year-old Teddy is playing next door with his best friend when Eric pulls out his father's handgun and hands it to Teddy. The telephone rings; the gun goes off, shooting - and killing - Teddy's two-year-old half-sister Trina, who was playing in a wading pool in the yard outside, with Giselle, their mother, by her side. Thus begins Marly Swick's second novel after the highly acclaimed Paper Wings. 

As with her previous work, Swick resolutely travels the domestic landscape, detailing delicately and truthfully the effect of Trina's death on the unstable triangle of the family left behind. Each member finds their bonds of love and loyalty tested, and each is resilient in the face of their loss, but for different - perhaps too different -reasons. Told alternately from the point of view of Giselle and Teddy himself, Evening News is a beautifully accomplished novel about resilience in the face of loss - and about the irrevocable damage that both the loss and the resilience can inflict. 

"An affecting novel... utterly palpable and real... It possesses both the psychological suspense ofSue Miller’s bestselling The Good Mother and the emotional acuity of Alice Munro’s short stories.”  -  Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times