ABOUT
THE BOOK

At night, under the same roof, under the same moon, nothing divides Evie and Janey Louise. Talking in their beds the girls discuss their mothers, Agnes and Volusia; their absent fathers; and their brothers, one fighting polio, the other fighting in the U.S. Army. Their closeness blinds Evie to the divisions of daylight – that she is white and her best friend is black, that Janey’s mother is the housekeeper for Evie’s family. Night Talk charts the course of two unlikely friendships, between two daughters and their remarkable mothers. Partly set in the Civil Rights days of the fifties and sixties, the novel also confronts the challenges of the present day. Elizabeth Cox has written two previous novels: she teaches one semester a year at Duke University, North Carolina, and lives in Littleton, Massachusetts.