Night Songs

Night Songs

Author: Alli Dyer Listening Length: 13h 8m

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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When I think of that summer in Nashville, I see Hess and me cruising down a sunflower-lined country road in her blue Mustang convertible, belting Shania Twain’s “Man, I Feel Like a Woman.”

She’d invited me to stay at her house instead of a hotel—she lived alone without a husband or children—and so her place became like a home to me.

Each morning was spent re-creating Belle’s life—we got our hair done at her old salon, we bought pearls at her jeweler, we ate the tangy shreds of her favorite barbecue.

I traded in my perfectly soiled Chucks for cowboy boots and squeezed into Belle’s old clothes Hess kept in the attic.