The Gloaming by Melanie Finn

The Gloaming by Melanie Finn

* New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2016.
* The Guardian's "Not the Booker Prize" Shortlist.
* Publishers Weekly's 'Big Indie Books of Fall 2016'
* 2017 Vermont Book Award finalist.

"Deeply satisfying. Finn is a remarkably confident and supple storyteller. [The Gloaming] deserves major attention."
--John Williams, New York Times

In rich, compelling prose, Melanie Finn perfectly captures a world of consequences, and the characters who must survive them. Pilgrim Jones' husband has just left her for another woman, stranding her in a small Swiss town where she is one day involved in a tragic car accident that leaves 3 school-children dead. Cleared of responsibility though overcome with guilt, she alights for Africa, where she befriends a series of locals each with their own tragic past, each isolated in their own private way in the remote Tanzanian outpost.

Mysteriously, the remains of an albino African appear packaged in a box, spooking everyone--sign of a curse placed by a witch doctor--though its intended recipient is uncertain. Pilgrim volunteers to rid the town of the box and its contents, though wherever she goes, she can't shake the feeling that she's being followed.

The Gloaming is a thrilling, haunting new work of guilt, atonement, and finally, hope.

Finn, Melanie: - Melanie Finn was born and raised in Kenya until age 11, when she moved with her family to Connecticut. After studying journalism at NYU, she worked as a freelance journalist and screenwriter for twenty years, living and working in six different countries. In 2004, her first novel, Away From You was published to international acclaim. The following year, she and her husband, the wildlife filmmaker Matt Aeberhard, moved to a remote region of Tanzania to make DisneyNature's beautiful, haunting flamingo epic, The Crimson Wing. During the filming, Melanie became the medic to the local Masai community and established The Natron Healthcare Project. Her second novel, The Gloaming, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2016, finalist for the Vermont Book Award and The Guardian'sNot the Booker Prize. She now lives on a hill in Vermont with Matt, their twin daughters, three Tanzanian mutts and two very old horses.

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ISBN 13	9781937512477
ISBN 10	1937512479
Title	The Gloaming
Author	Melanie Finn
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Two Dollar Radio
Year published	2016-09-20
Number of pages	318
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.