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Sisters, secrets, sorrow, and devotion: Evening is a short novel, heartbreaking and funny, about the complicated love between two sisters, one mourning the other. Eve, the narrator, returns home from New York to Toronto for the funeral and shiva of her older sister, Tam, a famous Canadian TV journalist who has died in her thirties, far too young. Full of contradiction, Eve struggles with ambition and romance. even during shiva. Tam was devotedly married, fiercely successful, disdaining what she viewed as Eve’s inability to choose, whether in work or love. But all of Eve’s assumptions will be undone by what she discovers over these shiva days. On the morning after the funeral, Eve learns the first of the secrets that will overturn her view of her family and her future. Then there is Laurie, Eve’s great first love, who suddenly appears in the shiva house. Eve knows something will happen, but so, within her, does Tam, whose wisecracks and scorn accompany Eve as a voice in her head during this week of grief and transformation.
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