Haruf is one of Evie and my favorite writers and we love his three Plainsong books. Here, Addie Moore, a 70-year-old woman pays a visit to her long-time neighbor, Louis Waters. Both are widowers and she has an interesting proposal. She wonders if he might be interested in sleeping with her each night without sex. They don't know each other well but through their nights, they get to know and like each other. They just talk in the dark and know the physical comfort of each other. Of course, the town gossips and Louis's daughter complains but why should they care what others think. That, however, is easy to say, hard to do. It's a wonderful book, like his previous three novels Evie and I have loved. It's set like all his books, in the small fictional town of Holt, Colorado. His themes, lack of decency and small-mindedness, turn up in all his books.
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