Marianne is teetering at the edge of reason. A death in the family sends her brilliant academic career and promising future spiraling out of control until resentment towards those who shaped her past leads her on a wild and desperate search for the truth about herself. On the seedy side of New York, she meets Miles, a hip musician busking the streets and playing low-rent venues in a muddled bid to make his own dreams come true. In her new life, she finds anarchic squalor, home grown music and poetry, booze, drugs, sex, violence, love, loss, and, above all, exhilarating freedom on her troubled journey from sleep to awakening. This gritty, relentless story unfolds with the same cool detachment that motivates the central character to peel back the layers of her life and expose the painful scalding within.
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It is moving and harsh and every word seemed true ... a great read. -- Bria Phillips
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Sleep Before Evening has been listed as a Finalist in the Regional Fiction category of the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
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Brief bio: Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. She is the author of a poetry book Repulsion Thrust, a novel Sleep Before Evening, a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything, and a number of other poetry chapbooks including Quark Soup, and, in collaboration with Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Blooming Red, Imagining the Future, Cherished Pulse and She Wore Emerald Then. Find out more at http://www.magdalenaball.com
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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A Must Read for Teens and Parents,
By Carolyn Howard-Johnson "Author 'This is the P... (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)
This review is from: Sleep Before Evening (Paperback)
No, "Sleep Before Evening" isn't a how-to book for either teens or parents. It does, however, give insight into the horrors of drug addiction, how it can happen to anyone and how it can escalate. We are all affected by it and it may some day creep up on us with silent paws to become part of our lives in a personal way. Having some understanding of the disease, how it can escalate and how it is not a cause for shame but for action can make a difference if and when that happens.
This is a wonderful book, a story told with compassion and one that, as a volunteer drug counselor, I know rings so very heartbreakingly true. ---- Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of THIS IS THE PLACE, HARKENING and a chapbook of poetry, TRACINGS, all available on Amaazon.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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This book will touch heart and soul,
This review is from: Sleep Before Evening (Paperback)
The dialogue is solid and believable, and the characters live and breathe and scratch themselves. The drug scenes and the horrors of dependence are especially well-rendered, but the story is ultimately uplifting and optimistic. It is a triumph of the soul. Read this book. CHAD HAUTMANN, author of Billie's Ghost
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A young girl's journey into the heart of darkness,
By Cathy Biribauer (Toronto, ON CAN) - See all my reviews
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As the drama coils tighter and tighter, it is the exquisite quality of writing that keeps the reader utterly glued. As Marianne struggles with her demons and we almost hold our breath as she nears her eighteenth birthday, Magdalena Ball's Sleep Before Evening shows us that in order to find yourself, you sometimes have to lose yourself first. For full review, please see The Rose and Thorn ezine
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