She Receives the Night

<p>From childhood to old age the remarkable women of <em>She Receives the Night</em> bear the burden of the world’s darkness and carry it toward the light.<br /> <br />Robert Earle’s dazzling stories illuminate the decisive moment in a woman’s life when she realizes she must break through the shells and traps of relationships gone bad customs too confining governments too brutal and grief too relentless.<br /> <br />Like their counterparts in the fiction of Joy Williams and Alice Munro these characters are tormented but resilient abused but unyielding sharp-eyed and sharp-witted. Na Cheon escapes a work camp in North Korea … Elizabeth rescues Marta from war in Central America … Henry becomes Henrietta in New York … Diane assumes the presidency in Washington … Katherine defies the police north of Rome … Lucy finds peace in the Oregon woods.<br /> <br /><em>She Receives the Night</em> tells stories of women everywhere from New Mexico to Melbourne. They are young and old. Their lives are the landscape of the heart.</p>