Evensong: A Novel

A penetrating and powerful novel about the deep undercurrents of love and regret in one Midwestern family.

Margaret Maguire-a widow and grandmother, home from the hospital in time for Christmas-is no longer able to ignore the consequences of having married an imperious and arrogant man. Despite her efforts to be a good wife and mother in small-town Iowa, her adult children are now strangers to one another, past hope of reconciliation. Margaret's granddaughter could be the one to break the cy...