Night. Sleep. Death. the Stars.

<p><strong>Timely monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are to have her as a novelist in our chaotic confusing times. <em>Night</em> is spot on for these times of racial divide as well as in portraying the fractious family dynamic that many of us know all too well. . . . <em>Night </em>deserves the top spot on your quarantine nightstand. Here's a fervent salute to Oates our finest American novelist for this one. -- Star Tribune</strong></p><p><strong>The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writers</strong></p><p><em>Night Sleep Death The Stars</em> is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.</p><p>Stark and penetrating Joyce Carol Oates's latest novel is a vivid exploration of race psychological trauma class warfare grief and eventual healing as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author's bestselling <em>We Were the Mulvaneys.</em></p>