Evensong, by Stewart O’Nan

O’Nan’s latest novel finds the “oracle of the ordinary and maven of the middle class” — as NPR reviewer Heller McAlpin described the novelist in 2012 — once again mining the mundane for its hidden magic. In Evensong, the cult favorite centers a small, lovingly rendered group of older women as they navigate the peculiar challenges of growing older, together as friends.

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