I loved having things left open for speculation. The questions, discussion topics and suggested reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group's experience of reading Susan Minot's Evening . We hope they will provide you with many new angles from which to approach this rich and poetic work by one of America's most powerful and emotionally evocative novelists. Ann Lord is dying of cancer. As she lies in bed, drifting in and out of consciousness, visited by friends and family members, we enter the twilight world of her memories, dreams, and regrets.
Evening is a magnificent, richly-textured work of art about youth and age, passion and compromise.
It triumphantly confirms Susan Minot's place as one of the foremost, and most beloved, of American writers. Outsiders see Ann rather differently than she sees herself. Ann conducts a number of imagined conversations with Harris in which the two meet again, for the first time in forty years. From another point of view, when all is said and done, Harris is not much better than or different from any other man.