Author(s): Willy Vlautin

General Fiction

Between looking after her brother, working two low-paid jobs, and trying to take part-time college classes, Lynette is dangerously tired. Every penny she's earned for years, she's put into savings, trying to scrape together enough to take out a mortgage on the house she rents with her mother. Finally becoming a homeowner in their rapidly gentrifying Portland neighbourhood could offer Lynette the kind of freedoms she's never had. But, when the plan is derailed, Lynette must embark on a desperate odyssey of hope and anguish.

Written with all Willy Vlautin's characteristic and heart-wrenching empathy, The Night Always Comes holds up a mirror to a society which leaves too many people only a step away from falling between the cracks.

Matilda Bookshop Review

The Night Always Comes is another minor-key classic from Vlautin, a modern day chronicler of America’s dispossessed lower classes.  The book, set over two taut days and nights, follows Lynette, who is working two jobs and studying, in her attempt to buy the house she rents with her mother and intellectually handicapped brother. Vlautin’s concise writing is typically empathetic and the tension and grief he evokes for these nuanced characters make this a memorable read.  Gavin