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In this richly detailed book about the search for an unknown daddy, Julia Glass brings new people together with familiar figures from her first two books, immersing readers in a panorama that extends from suburban New Jersey to rural Vermont and ultimately to the tip of Cape Cod. Kit Noonan can be an unemployed skill historian with twins to help support and a mortgage to pay - and a wife annoyed by his inertia. Brought up with a strong-willed, secretive single mother, Kit hasn't known the identity of his daddy - a puzzle that his wife insists he must solve to move forward with his life. Out of desperation, Kit would go to the pile retreat of his mother's former hubby, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners outdoorsman. There, amid a brutal blizzard, Kit and Jasper confront memories of the bittersweet decade when their families were joined. Reluctantly breaking a long-ago promises, Jasper connects Kit with Lucinda and Zeke Burns up, who know the answer he's looking for. Readers of Glass's first book, Three Junes, will discover Lucinda as the mother of Malachy, the music critic who died of AIDS. In fact, to fully understand the secrets bordering his paternity, Kit will travel further still, meeting Fenno McLeod, now in his past due fifties, and Fenno's longtime friend, the gregarious Walter Kinderman. And the Dark Sacred Evening can be an exquisitely memorable tale about the more youthful options that steer our destinies, the necessity of forgiveness, and the risks we take when we face down the shadows from our former.
