Our Souls at Night

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Our Souls at Night
192 pages; Knopf

In his final work, the Plainsong novelist, who died last year, returns to Colorado one last time. His ode to love late in life, in this case the stirring romance between a widow and a widower, compellingly captures the halting rhythms and kaleidoscopic moods of old age.

— Hamilton Cain