Evening News Nine Cassettes - With her beautifully composed prose, award-winning novelist Marly Swick creates this searing novel, reminiscent of the best-seller Ordinary People (RB# 84110). Evening News is her perceptive portrayal of a blended family struggling to survive and forget in the face of a shattering loss. After years of unhappiness, Giselle Trias ... more »has divorced her husband in Nebraska and taken her son Teddy to California. Now she has a caring new spouse and an exuberant two-year-old daughter. Even her nine-year-old son gets along well with his stepfather and half sister. Everything is perfectuntil one sunny day when Teddy plays with a neighbors gun. Suddenly Giselle is fighting to keep her family together and to forgive the unforgivable. With illuminating insight, Marly Swick explores the fragile bonds of step families and the nature of unconditional love. Barbara Carusos sensitive narration highlights the heartbreak and healing that follow an accident so shocking that it could come straight from todays headlines.« less