Description
Nora Ashby spent eleven years working nights before she wrote a word of fiction, and it shows. This warm, funny and sometimes heartbreaking novel follows Della and Ruth from their first shift in 1989 to their last.
It is a book about the people who keep the lights on while the rest of us sleep. Book clubs love it, and we have a free discussion guide at the counter.
Details
- Literary fiction, 336 pages
- Hardcover with printed endpapers
- Paperback edition with book club questions
- Staff pick, fall season
Bookseller note
Imani, fiction buyer: The most tender friendship I have read in years.
Peter Lang (verified owner) –
Warm and funny with a gut-punch near the end. Bring tissues.
Denise Carter (verified owner) –
Our book club talked for three hours. Several of us are nurses and it rang true.