The Evening Road

Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw. Quick of mind and pleasing to the eye, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1920, an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and fearful celebration.Meet Calla Destry. A young black woman desperate to escape a place where the stench of violence hangs heavy in the air, and to find the lover who has promised her a new life.Two remarkable women on the move through an America riven by fear and hatred. Every road leads to the bedlam of Marvel. There are buses laid on and Klan members gathering. Lives will collide and be changed forever.

Product details

• Authors: Laird Hunt, Hunt Laird
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781784703646
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-364-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; USA, FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, c 1920 to c 1929, Relating to African American people, FICTION / African American & Black / Historical, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Relating to African American / Black American people