Night Songs

Night Songs

Author: Alli Dyer Listening Length: 13h 8m
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In this haunting family saga, a young woman must delve into her country star mother’s music to break a curse that has plagued the women in her family for generations—before her time runs out. On the morning of Rhea’s eighteenth birthday, she makes a shocking discovery—her mother was the famed singer of some of coun...

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Chapter 7

FIFTEEN YEARS LEFT

Life on the road was dirty and strange. This was the county fair circuit smack dab in the sweaty crack of summer. We were all damp as frogs from sunup to sundown, smelling like the salt dust of the shelled peanuts we lived on.

And I quickly realized I was made for it. I had lived most of my life on the edge of existence like the other musicians.

Hess had a harder time acclimating. She was used to a certain standard of living, and she didn’t say it out loud, but I knew she thought it was all a bit barbaric. The cheap hamburgers and passing the liquor bottle after the shows and taking naps in bus seats while we drove to the next town.