The Hollow of Evening

A haunting debut novel set in a mid-century mental institution where one resident's hope for escape collides with a system built on cruelty.

How much agency does one truly have against systems designed to negate personhood?

In an isolated institution for so-called mental defectives, Joseph Tanat and his fellow inmates hope and scheme for a return to the outside world. As Joseph awaits his case review and potential release, rivalries are formed as all fight over the memory of a former resident...