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""Expertly weaves the ancient wisdom of elders with some very modern problems-with revelatory, astonishing results."" -Alex George, author of The Paris Hours and the #1 Indie Next List Pick, A Good American ""A magnificent work of fiction. With spare, gorgeous insight and a compelling sense of pace, [Keener] maps how small, everyday moments drive the larger, at times irrevocable, events of a life."" -Dawn Tripp, author of bestselling novels Georgia and Jackie ""With an emotional sensitivity and clarity of prose that reminds me of writers like Ann Napolitano and Elizabeth Strout, Jessica Keener brings to life a tale of two families in crisis and how these modern skeptical people stumble into an ancient spiritual practice that haltingly and convincingly brings them to hope, love, and solace. This is a beautiful and ultimately uplifting book."" -Elizabeth Letts, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty Dollar Champion, and the novels, Finding Dorothy and The Ride of Her Life ""What does it mean to totally trust someone you love, be it a partner or child, your job, or even the world around you? Keener's new novel springs from an emotional affair and soars into the lives of two very different families in a way that's both propulsive and spiritual. Deeply immersive, comforting, inspiring, and real, Evening Begins the Day made me see and experience these indelible characters' world-and my own-differently."" -Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You, Cruel Beautiful World, and Days of Wonder ""With its intergenerational cast and rotating perspectives, this emotional novel about the challenges of marriage and parenting-in a world wracked by climate emergency and social injustice-becomes an unlikely page-turner. The character of Lauren vibrantly represents so many teens, throbbing with disappointment, a wavering hope, and love for a planet in peril."" -Daphne Kalotay, author of The Archivists, winner of the Grace Paley Prize

""Evening Begins the Day follows lives drifting through their own wildernesses. As a marriage shaken by infidelity and a mother trying to keep her daughter safe without losing her trust begin to overlap in unexpected ways, the novel unfolds like a confession: honest, intimate, and impossible to put down. It asks how we measure love and live with uncertainty when trust is broken and relationships feel like guessing in the dark. A gorgeous, important work of hard-earned love, and you will be changed by reading it."" -Susan Henderson, author of The Flicker of Old Dreams, 2019 High Plains Book Award Winner for Fiction ""Expertly weaves the ancient wisdom of elders with some very modern problems-with revelatory, astonishing results."" -Alex George, author of The Paris Hours and the #1 Indie Next List Pick, A Good American ""A magnificent work of fiction. With spare, gorgeous insight and a compelling sense of pace, [Keener] maps how small, everyday moments drive the larger, at times irrevocable, events of a life."" -Dawn Tripp, author of bestselling novels Georgia and Jackie ""With an emotional sensitivity and clarity of prose that reminds me of writers like Ann Napolitano and Elizabeth Strout, Jessica Keener brings to life a tale of two families in crisis and how these modern skeptical people stumble into an ancient spiritual practice that haltingly and convincingly brings them to hope, love, and solace. This is a beautiful and ultimately uplifting book."" -Elizabeth Letts, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty Dollar Champion, and the novels, Finding Dorothy and The Ride of Her Life ""What does it mean to totally trust someone you love, be it a partner or child, your job, or even the world around you? Keener's new novel springs from an emotional affair and soars into the lives of two very different families in a way that's both propulsive and spiritual. Deeply immersive, comforting, inspiring, and real, Evening Begins the Day made me see and experience these indelible characters' world-and my own-differently.""-Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You, Cruel Beautiful World, and Days of Wonder

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Jessica Keener's bestselling debut novel, Night Swim, was followed by her collection of award-winning stories, Women in Bed. Her second novel, Strangers in Budapest, was an Indie Next pick, a Southern Independent Bookseller Association bestseller, and a ""best new book"" selection by Entertainment Weekly. She has been listed in The Pushcart Prize under 'outstanding writers' and granted writing fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Brown University, Wesleyan University, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as a women's leadership fellowship from the Omega Institute in New York. Her more than 100 feature articles and essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, WBUR's Cognoscenti, O magazine, Lilith magazine, Psychology Today, and the anthology: Alone Together, winner of the 2021 Washington State Book Prize. Jessica lives with her husband, an attorney, in Brookline, MA.

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