The Night Journal

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ISBN: 9780143038573

Elizabeth Crook

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Penguin USA
30 January 2007

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction

A mesmerizing novel of four generations of Southwestern women bound to a mythical legacy

With its family secrets and hallowed texts containing explosive truths, The Night Journal suggests A. S. Byatts Possession transplanted to the raw and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest. Meg Mabry has spent her life oppressed by her familys legacya heritage beginning with the

journals written by her great-grandmother in the 1890s and solidified by her grandmother Bassie, a famous historian who published them to great acclaim. Until now, Meg has stubbornly refused to read the journals. But when she concedes to accompany the elderly and vipertongued Bassie on a return trip to the fabled land of her childhood in New Mexico, Meg finally succumbs to the allure of her great-grandmothers storyand soon everything she believed about her family is turned upside down.

By: Elizabeth Crook
Imprint: Penguin USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 355g
ISBN: 9780143038573
ISBN 10: 0143038575
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 30 January 2007
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth Crook is the author of two previous novels and has been published in anthologies and periodicals such as Texas Monthly and Southwestern Historical Quarterly. She has devoted most of the last decade to researching and writing this book.

Reviews for The Night Journal

Sumptuous, surprise-filled . . . The Night Journal is near perfect, a beautifully restrained epic with nary a wasted word. (Texas Monthly) Crook has a clear gift for detail and dialogue. . . . [T]here's plenty to keep you engaged and engrossed in The Night Journal. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)