This was different than anything I’ve read before. It’s hard for me to explain. It was detailed and interesting and each person was complex. This author showed me so much with his words. How he said them. The way he brought the characters to life. I had to finished it in one day. I was intrigued. I wanted closer and I couldn’t put it down. In The Night Always Comes, Lynette is chasing a dream. An All-American goal. She wants to stop paying rent and buy the house—even with its issues—where she lives. To do this, she needs her mother Doreen’s help to qualify for the loan. And right when the plan is coming together, Doreen changes her mind and spends cash on a new car. “I’m fifty-seven years old and I still buy my clothes at Goodwill. It’s a little late for me to care about building a future,” says Doreen.

The album features Vlautin on guitar and vocals, Amy Boone (vocals), Cory Gray on piano and trumpets, Sean Oldham on drums, and Freddy Trujillo on bass. It is produced by John Morgan Askew and features 10 new Delines songs, in addition to a cover of Spiritualized’s 1997 song "Broken Heart".I used to always ask myself, Why would a man in his twenties want to live on the street when he could work? The answer is: why not? Why should they bust their ass all day when they know no matter what they do they'll never get ahead?' A few hours since I've finished this now, and I have been trying to find reasons not to give it 5 stars.. but I give in.

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.

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Because this is exactly what desperate people DO. They aren't cunning. They aren't smart. They make split second decisions. They hit. They pull a knife. They grab what they can. They run. An angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored. I did listen to the audio which is narrated by Christine Lakin and man was she good. She was the perfect person to be the voice of Lynette and she definitely did a fantastic job of getting the emotion of the story across. This is straight-up literary fiction to me, and there is no mystery, but it did feel very suspenseful since you never know what will happen next. Even though it is basically one bad thing after another and it feels like Lynette will never catch a break, the end does leave the reader feeling hopeful. It left me wishing there was more to the story since the whole thing was so sad, but I am glad it left us with some hope, or I really would have been depressed! I would recommend The Night Always Comes if you are a fan of gritty, emotional reads and don't mind if they have a gloomy/ominous feeling throughout. Vlautin’s sixth novel, The Night Always Comes, is set in Portland, Oregon. Set over the course of two days and two nights, it follows Lynnette and her desperate attempts to finally become a homeowner in her rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood. The main character stays paper thin. I never really felt like I understood her or her motivations. Who is she besides someone with mental health issues and a tragic past? She wants to buy a house and help her disables brother.... and? What kind of person is she? What does she like? She is way too trusting, and not very smart. She makes the same mistake over and over again. I literally found myself cursing at her out loud at some point.

A book trailer which shows some of the locations mentioned in The Night Always Comes can be seen here.the story is tight cutting perfection, and it keeps the reader very close; i felt lynette's exhaustion and frustration deep in my bones, and the smallness of her asks—that debts be repaid, that promises be kept, that hard work and sacrifice count for something—was heartbreakingly real. SIDE A 1. Lynette 2. Broken Heart 3. Driving WIth the Safe 4.Leaving JJ’s 5. Walking To Tell Jake 6.Shirley & Lynette Willy Vlautin (born 1967) is an American author and the lead singer and songwriter of Portland, Oregon band Richmond Fontaine. Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, he has released nine studio albums since the late nineties with his band while he has written four novels: The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete, and The Free. I'm starting to think that some people are just born to sink. Born to fail. And I'm beginning to realize that I'm one of those people, and you have no idea what that's like. How truly awful it is to know that about yourself." Not dissimilar to his previous five novels, Vlautin's deftness in making his characters so impacting is remarkable. Just as in Lean on Pete, in which we become impassioned with the vulnerable Charley, or the tragedy surrounding Horace in Don't Skip Out on Me, here our central character Lynette is equally ineffaceable.