The gloaming

a novel

308 pages

English language

Published March 18, 2016 by Two Dollar Radio.

ISBN:
978-1-937512-47-7
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OCLC Number:
938997126

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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 accident. Overcome with guilt, she alights for Africa, befriending a series of locals, each with their own tragic past and each isolated in their own way. Mysteriously, one day a witch doctor's curse is carried into town, setting everyone in the remote Tanzanian outpost on edge. Pilgrim can't shake the feeling she's being followed.

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Finn's complex characters live wholly within themselves, and although there is a great deal of disconnectedness and emotional isolation in The Gloaming, these characters are redeemed (in various ways) by an artfully constructed plot and a sound premise. Although the story stalls just a little midway through, Finn delivers a substantive payoff in an ending that is memorable and true.

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Subjects

  • Atonement
  • Divorced women
  • Fiction
  • Traffic accidents
  • Blessing and cursing

Places

  • Switzerland
  • Tanzania