**NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The award-winning, bestselling author of
Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a
novel that unveils the immemorial truths about human beings: their
fragility and resilience, their selfishness and goodness, and their
ability to find family in one another. - "Storytelling at its best."
--Entertainment Weekly
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The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria
Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left their
ranch to start college. A lonely young boy stoically cares for his
grandfather while a disabled couple tries to protect their a violent
relative. As these lives unfold and intersect, Eventide reveals Kent
Haruf as a novelist of masterful authority.
"Stunning.... The dry, cold air of Colorado's high plains seems to
intensify the light Kent Haruf shines on every character in his
masterful novel.... A book of hope, hope as plain and hard-won as
Haruf's keenly styled prose." --O, The Oprah Magazine