A review by mhoffrob
The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin

4.0

This novel is all about life on the edges - the edges of Portland, the edges of economic viability, the edges of mental health - set within Lynette's disfunctional family, over the course of less than 30 or so hours. Lynette has working furiously to better her situation, hoping to buy the family home from her landlord as housing prices rise exponentially around her. At the last moment, when she has scraped to get the downpayment, her mother decies she will NOT sign the mortgage, which Lynette is not qualified on her own. In a last ditch effort to make it work, she sets off on an odyssey of collecting old debts and a minature crime spree to accomplish that. Her problems run deeper, and the unpredictible happens repeatedly.