Evening

Literary Fiction

Author: Susan Minot

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR July 1954. An island off the coast of Maine. Ann Grant–a 25-year-old New York career girl–is a bridesmaid at her best friend’s lavish wedding. Also present is a man named Harris Arden, whom Ann has never met . . . After three marriages and five children, Ann Lord lies in an upstairs bedroom of a house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wh….Read More

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