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The Gloaming

by Melanie Finn

Narrator Nicol Zanzarella

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Length 9 hours 33 minutes

Language English

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“The Gloaming is a dreamy, dark book about a woman escaping the fallout of a tragic accident she doesn’t fully remember, and the abandonment of her husband, by hopping a plane to Africa. With powerful prose that evokes disturbance and uncertainty, the novel is divided effectively into two sections: the first told from the perspective of beautiful Pilgrim Jones, and the second from the various characters who encounter her. Some view her with conviction and envy, others with desire. With undertones of women’s vulnerability/strength and the ways in which they are preyed upon, the sense of place, and of being out of place, are also strong. Finn's writing has all the hallucinatory pleasures of Paul Bowles, with that language and story so clear yet unsettlingly veiled.”
— Chorel • Bookshop Santa Cruz

Summary

Pilgrim's husband left her for another woman, stranding her in a Swiss town where she is involved in an accident that leaves three children dead. Cleared of responsibility though overcome with guilt, she absconds to Africa, befriending a series of locals, each with their own tragic past.

Mysteriously, the remains of an albino appear, spooking everyone—sign of a curse placed by a witch doctor—though its intended recipient is uncertain. Pilgrim volunteers to rid the town of the box and its contents, though wherever she goes, she can't shake the feeling that she's being followed.

Fiction Mystery & Thriller