Evening

Eve has returned home to Toronto to attend the funeral of her successful older sister, Tam, a news anchor with a perfect husband and family, only to discover Tam’s life wasn’t exactly as it appeared, nor as different from her own as she thought. Evening by Nessa Rapoport is an alluring novel about sibling love and rivalry, and what happens when the narratives we cling to turn out to be false. Evening perfectly captures a complicated relationships between two adult sisters, the way they’ve always deeply loved and admired, yet also competed against and criticized one another; the way they define themselves primarily in contrast to the other. Like This Is Where I Leave You , Evening follows a Jewish family forced to confront its past, and its secrets, in the wake of loss, and beautifully illustrates Eve’s relationship with her parents, uncle, and grandmother (who had an eerily similar relationship with her own sister) Rapoport has strong connections to the Jewish Book Council, which selected her for a national tour to promote her memoir, House on the River , and expects strong support from that network Nessa Rapoport is the author of House on the River: A Summer Journey (2004), a memoir, and Preparing for Sabbath (1981), a novel, among other works. Originally from Toronto, Canada, she now lives in New York City. Acquired and edited by Jack Shoemaker