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Author Lee Martin

in conversation with Connie Schultz

Join us when authors Lee Martin and Connie Schultz visit to discuss Martin's latest novel, The Evening Shades.

About the author:

Lee Martin is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever, the novel Quakertown, the story collection The Least You Need to Know, and the memoirs From Our House and Turning Bones. He has won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, a Lawrence Foundation Award, the Glenna Luschei Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Martin lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he directs the creative writing program at The Ohio State University.

In The Evening Shades, one afternoon in the autumn of 1972, a lonely widow in Mt. Gilead, Illinois, makes the impromptu decision to rent out a room in her house to a stranger who has come to town. It is risky—she doesn’t know anything about him. But Edith Green can no longer bear a life lived alone. And Henry Dees is haunted by the past he carries with him from another small town, particularly by the death of a little girl that some people think was his fault.

And slowly, Henry and Edith’s suspenseful dance between secrets and trust leads them to start revealing things to each other — and themselves.

Lee Martin will be in conversation with Connie Schultz, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and a professional-in-residence in the journalism school at Kent State University, her alma mater. She is the author of one novel - The Daughters of Erietown - and two memoirs - Life Happens and …And His Lovely Wife. 

Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.