To read Gail Godwin is to touch the very core of human experience. With inimitable grace and aching emotional precision, Godwin probes our own complexities in characters whose lives oscillate between success and struggle, stoic resolve and quixotic temptation, bitter disappointment and small, sacred joys. Now with Evensong, she again translates our everyday existence into soul-touching truths as she brings to brilliantly realized life the people of a small Smoky Mountain town—and a woman whose world is indelibly altered by them.

Ron Charles

[A] sensitiveperfectly paced novel…Smashing one of the strangest taboos in American literatureGodwin may have finally brought religion back from the wilderness and made it a safe subject for literary fiction. —The Christian Science Monitor

Publish Date : 2000-02-29