Thus begins Marly Swick's second novel after the highly acclaimed Paper Wings. As with her previous work, Swick resolutely travels the domestic landscape, detailing delicately and truthfully the effect of Trina's death on the unstable triangle of the family left behind. Each member finds their bonds of love and loyalty tested, and each is resilient in the face of their loss, but for different -- perhaps too different -- reasons: Giselle must get Teddy through the crisis, but Dan, his stepfather, having just lost his daughter, has no such responsibility.

Told alternately from the point of view of Giselle and Teddy himself, Evening News is a beautifully accomplished novel about resilience in the face of loss -- and about the irrevocable damage that both the loss and the resilience can inflict.

"A beautifully written, haunting novel [that] illuminates the fallout and aftermath of senseless -- and avoidable -- tragedy... Swick has an astonishing ability to see the picture from multiple points of view."
   NEWARK STAR-LEDGER

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

"An exquisite and powerful novel... a vivid journey through the hell of survival, a journey of impossible and heart-wrenching choices... Evening News is about how tragedy strips you down, questions your