Lee Martin discusses The Evening Shades with Katy Yocom

About the Book:

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 ...

About the Authors:

Lee Martin is the author of seven novels, including The Bright Forever, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including Harper’s, Ms Magazine, The Georgia Review, and The Kenyon Review, and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Essays, and The Best American Mystery Stories. His books have been widely translated, and won numerous awards, including a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers award. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University and in the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University.

Katy Yocom’s novel Three Ways to Disappear, a Barnes & Noble Top Indie Favorite, won the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Book Award, and others. She is co-editor of the anthology Creativity & Compassion: Spalding Writers Celebrate Twenty Years. Her work has appeared in LitHub, Newsweek, Salon.com, Terrain.org, and more. She is associate director of Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University.

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