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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NINE YEARS LEFT

I can only describe it as a fever. The constraints of day and night, of breakfast, lunch, and dinner, did not apply to us. We ate when our thoughts turned to vapor, and we slept when we could no longer think at all.

When we needed a break, we lit a joint and fucked on the couch or the floor. I thought it’d be hard to sleep with someone after Hess, but it was different with Tate. It wasn’t charged with so much love and devotion; we each did it to serve ourselves.

But what we mainly did was write songs.