Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. : A Novel

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.Nightis 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. . . .Nightdeserves the top spot on your quarantine nightstand. Here's a fervent salute to Oates, our finest American novelist, for this one. -- Star Tribune

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

Night Sleep Death The Stars 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.

Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oatess 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 authors bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.