Aaron Cance

Fans of Evison's Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving will delight in this new book which, like his last, has been built around a smaller cast of quirky and unique characters, many of whom resemble people we already know, would like to know or wish we didn't know. Moving through nearly eighty years of Harriet Chance's existence on earth, visiting all the pivotal moments that have shaped her, Evison delicately opens up the life of his novel's namesake in a poignant homage to the quiet strength of a wife and mother whose life has flashed by, and who finds herself, of a sudden, in her final years. Tragic, funny, and transcendent, Evison's fourth book is a fine addition to his oeuvre. – Aaron Cance