Critical Praise

"A book that lingers in the mind and heart."

——Colleen Kelly Warren, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A courageous book, evincing, for most of its duration, an impressive and riveting intensity....This headline-loud family drama appears to be destined for a place on the shelf that includes such popular writers as Anna Quindlen and Jacquelyn Mitchard....A remarkable performance."

——Donna Seaman, Chicago Tribune

"Engrossing....Evening News opens with a heart-shattering moment...which Swick masterly uses to dissect the fault lines that can run through a family."

——Elle

"A finely crafted and starkly contemporary novel....What gives the novel real power is Swick's brilliant characterization of Teddy....His voice gives this novel a sustaining resonance."

——Debra Ginsberg, San Diego Union-Tribune

"Evening News has some of the flavor of Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World, a kind of heart-of-the-country honesty, a deep respect for domestic life and ordinary people."

——Sandra Scofield, Portland Oregonian

"A wise, deeply felt story....Swick is such a master of the small detail and at creating characters who are at once familiar and individual....She's able to make us really know and care about her characters."

——Sara Nelson, Newsday

"It's one thing to have the artist's gifts of language and insight, which Marly Swick has in abundance. It's another thing to have the guts to use those gifts to approach some of the most difficult questions of modern society. . . . Not only is Marly Swick a prodigiously talented artist, she also has remarkable courage."

——Robert Olen Butler