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The Night Always Comes

de Willy Vlautin

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"Willy Vlautin is not known for happy endings, but there's something here that defies the downward pull. In the end, Lynette is pure life force: fierce and canny and blazing through a city that no longer has space for her, and it's all Portland's loss."??Portland Monthly Magazine

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gentrification on ordinary lives in this scorching novel that captures the plight of a young woman pushed to the edge as she fights to secure a stable future for herself and her family.

Barely thirty, Lynette is exhausted. Saddled with bad credit and juggling multiple jobs, some illegally, she's been diligently working to buy the house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother Kenny. Portland's housing prices have nearly quadrupled in fifteen years, and the owner is giving them a good deal. Lynette knows it's their last best chance to own their own home??and obtain the security they've never had. While she has enough for the down payment, she needs her mother to cover the rest of the asking price. But a week before they're set to sign the loan papers, her mother gets cold feet and reneges on her promise, pushing Lynette to her limits to find the money they need.

Set over two days and two nights, The Night Always Comes follows Lynette's frantic search??an odyssey of hope and anguish that will bring her face to face with greedy rich men and ambitious hustlers, those benefiting and those left behind by a city in the throes of a transformative boom. As her desperation builds and her pleas for help go unanswered, Lynette makes a dangerous choice that sets her on a precarious, frenzied spiral. In trying to save her family's future, she is plunged into the darkness of her past, and forced to confront the reality of her life.

A heart wrenching portrait of a woman hungry for security and a home in a rapidly changing city, The Night Always Comes raises the difficult questions we are often too afraid to ask ourselves: What is the price of gentrification, and how far are we really prepared to go to achieve the American Dream? Is the American dream even attainable for those living at the edges? Or for too many of us, is it only a hollow prom… (més)

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From GoodReads/Amazon: Barely thirty, Lynette is exhausted. Saddled with bad credit and juggling multiple jobs, some illegally, she’s been diligently working to buy the house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother Kenny. Portland’s housing prices have nearly quadrupled in fifteen years, and the owner is giving them a good deal. Lynette knows it’s their last best chance to own their own home—and obtain the security they’ve never had. While she has enough for the down payment, she needs her mother to cover the rest of the asking price. But a week before they’re set to sign the loan papers, her mother gets cold feet and reneges on her promise, pushing Lynette to her limits to find the money they need.

Set over two days and two nights, The Night Always Comes follows Lynette’s frantic search—an odyssey of hope and anguish that will bring her face to face with greedy rich men and ambitious hustlers, those benefiting and those left behind by a city in the throes of a transformative boom."

From me: oh, Lynette. No happy endings. So much struggle and so little in return. Are there any answers to these problems? Great story. ( )
  ParadisePorch | Nov 24, 2023 |
Noir Was The Night
Review of the Harper Perennial paperback edition (May 17, 2022) of the original Harper hardcover (April 6, 2021)

This book has a deceptive opening but very soon it plunges into a maelstrom of desperation and crime (not all of which is initiated by the protagonist) as she makes a last ditch attempt to salvage a home purchase for her family of a mother and developmentally challenged brother. Lynette is leading a hard scrabble existence with 2 jobs as baker and bartender, working to save money towards what she sees as a longed for mark of stability in the fast growing housing market in Portland, Oregon, USA.

When her mother reneges on a deal to make a house loan, Lynette tries to call in all possible debts to make up further funding for the purchase of their rundown house. The overnight attempt takes her on a harrowing journey through sex work, car theft, burglary, safe cracking, and drug dealing, not to mention being the potential victim of two attempted murderous assaults.

See photograph at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Southeast_Portland%2C_...
Photograph of the exterior of the Hotcake House in Portland, Oregon, one of the locations in "The Night Always Comes". Image sourced from Wikipedia.

This was a compulsively readable thriller which has you rooting for the underdog protagonist all the way, even when she may not be the most likeable character or the maker of the best decisions. Normally the tags of 'noir' and 'hardboiled' are used for the detective genre, but they are completely appropriate for this domestic family drama. My thanks to GR Friend Berengaria's 4.5-5 star review which alerted me to this book.

Soundtrack, Trivia and Links
As author Willy Vlautin is also a musician and songwriter for the band The Delines, the group released a limited edition album as the soundtrack for The Night Always Comes which is freely available for download through a QR code printed on the back of the Harper Perennial paperback. The full track listing can be seen on Discogs and a video single was released as Don't Think Less of Me.

A book trailer which shows some of the locations mentioned in The Night Always Comes can be seen here.

Author Vlautin is interviewed on the book's release by the Poisoned Pen bookstore YouTube channel here.

Author Vlautin is interviewed on the book's release by Oregon Public Broadcasting and you can read the interview at Willy Vlautin’s new novel is a melancholic love letter to working-class Portland. ( )
  alanteder | Jan 27, 2023 |
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Exited at 24% when it's revealed that Lynette is a prostitute ( )
  Desiree_Reads | Jan 24, 2023 |
All Lynette wants in life is to own something — specifically, the worn-down house in Portland she, her mother, and her mentally-challenged brother have lived in for the past 15 years. In The Night Always Comes, Willy Vlautin gives readers just over 24 hours in Lynette’s life as he explores one woman’s pursuit of the American dream of home ownership. At 31, Lynette’s life has not been easy, and as the novel progresses we learn more and more about her past and what drives her to do anything to get her piece of land. This is not an easy book, and Vlautin’s writing often comes off as clunky with long, awkward monologues to explain characters’ motives, and as the events of the main night unfold circumstances get more and more unbelievable. Personally, I often find male writers fall short with female protagonists, and Vlautin definitely falls into this category for me with crying his default action to show Lynette’s emotions and a general lack of understanding of real women. Not a terrible book by any means, but if readers want a sad book about a woman down on her luck I suggest they look toward Jenette Wall, Jesmyn Ward, Louise Erdrich, Sally Rooney, Mary Karr…I could go on and on. ( )
  Hccpsk | Jun 25, 2022 |
Touted as the example of capitalism as the problem with our society, this novella is a better example of the envious and “poor me” mindset that is the problem with our society.

The characters make bad decisions and then whine about their crappy lives, never taking responsibility for their own choices. The MC is a troubled 30 y/o living in her mother’s rented home after blowing up a good relationship. Her developmentally disabled brother is still at home when he would do better and be less burden on her mother if he were in a group home with appropriate support.

When the mother backs out of helping buy the rental from their landlord, the MC dithers about trying to figure out what to do about losing her living space. She can’t afford to live in Portland. For pity’s sake, she saved nearly $100k over three years by prostituting herself. Her skill set includes baking - not exactly a non-portable skill.

It takes someone outside her circle of loser, drugged-out “friends” to tell her to leave the city for a place where she can live on her income. If this story is typical of the attitude and outlook of big city dwellers, I’ve never been happier that I escaped that mindset (and environment) years ago. ( )
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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. HTML:

"Willy Vlautin is not known for happy endings, but there's something here that defies the downward pull. In the end, Lynette is pure life force: fierce and canny and blazing through a city that no longer has space for her, and it's all Portland's loss."??Portland Monthly Magazine

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gentrification on ordinary lives in this scorching novel that captures the plight of a young woman pushed to the edge as she fights to secure a stable future for herself and her family.

Barely thirty, Lynette is exhausted. Saddled with bad credit and juggling multiple jobs, some illegally, she's been diligently working to buy the house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother Kenny. Portland's housing prices have nearly quadrupled in fifteen years, and the owner is giving them a good deal. Lynette knows it's their last best chance to own their own home??and obtain the security they've never had. While she has enough for the down payment, she needs her mother to cover the rest of the asking price. But a week before they're set to sign the loan papers, her mother gets cold feet and reneges on her promise, pushing Lynette to her limits to find the money they need.

Set over two days and two nights, The Night Always Comes follows Lynette's frantic search??an odyssey of hope and anguish that will bring her face to face with greedy rich men and ambitious hustlers, those benefiting and those left behind by a city in the throes of a transformative boom. As her desperation builds and her pleas for help go unanswered, Lynette makes a dangerous choice that sets her on a precarious, frenzied spiral. In trying to save her family's future, she is plunged into the darkness of her past, and forced to confront the reality of her life.

A heart wrenching portrait of a woman hungry for security and a home in a rapidly changing city, The Night Always Comes raises the difficult questions we are often too afraid to ask ourselves: What is the price of gentrification, and how far are we really prepared to go to achieve the American Dream? Is the American dream even attainable for those living at the edges? Or for too many of us, is it only a hollow prom

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