EVENING ROAD -LP (Thorndike Press Large Print Historical Fiction) - Hardcover

"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 (starred review)"

"Wow! Beautifully crafted, seductive, evocative language and a story that punches you in the gut and lays you low and yet leaves you wanting more. It's rich, deep, dark, harrowing stuff and it does what all great fiction does-it lays ahold of the heart and won't let go. You'll think about this book for weeks, if not years, to come." Daniel James Brown, bestselling author of The Boys in The Boat"

"A strange, dazzling novel, as audacious as it is lyrical, The Evening Road hauls up insight, sorrow, and even-somehow-wit from the well of American history." Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room and The Wonder"

"Not since Miss Jane Pittman have I encountered such strong and admirable characters as Laird Hunt's Ottie Lee Henshaw and Calla Destry. In The Evening Road, Hunt shows us how love and kindness can and ultimately will prevail over misogyny and racial injustice. This dramatic story of one horrific day in Middle America a century ago is as relevant to our own era as the intolerance, latent and otherwise, that still characterizes all levels of our society. The Evening Road is both a major literary achievement and a timely and inspiring story in these troubles, latter days." Howard Frank Mosher, author of A Stranger In The Kingdom"

"The Evening Road is a sad and raucous story, ugly and beautiful at once, evocatively starring two very different women." Shelf Awareness"

In the summer of 1920 in small-town Indiana, two women--beautiful Ottie Lee Henshaw and Calla Destry, a young black woman--cross paths and they soon move through an America plagued by fear and hatred, determined to flee the secrets they have left behind.