The Night Always Comes

- Blurb -

Between looking after her brother, working two low-paid jobs, and trying to take part-time college classes, Lynette is dangerously tired. Every penny she' s earned for years, she' s put into savings, trying to scrape together enough to take out a mortgage on the house she rents with her mother. Finally becoming a homeowner in their rapidly gentrifying Portland neighbourhood could offer Lynette the kind of freedoms she' s never had. But, when the plan is derailed, Lynette must embark on a desperate odyssey of hope and anguish. Written with all Willy Vlautin' s characteristic and heart-wrenching empathy, The Night Always Comes holds up a mirror to a society which leaves too many people only a step away from falling between the cracks. ' The straightforward beauty of Vlautin' s writing, and the tender care he shows his characters, turns a story of struggle into indispensable reading. ' - Ann Patchett ' Vlautin is one of the bravest novelists writing . . . An unsentimental Steinbeck, a heartbroken Haruf. ' - Ursula K. Le Guin