A review by anotherdayreading
The Gloaming by Melanie Finn

4.0

Sometimes you find just the right book at the right time for a little bibliotherapy. This book captured the aftermath numbness of being dumped. Not only has Pilgrim Jones' human rights attorney husband left her, but he has stranded her and set her adrift in a small town in Switzerland. After constantly travelling the world with her husband, she has no home and no friends. When she accidentally strikes and kills 3 of the town's children with her car and incurs the wrath of the locals, she flees to Africa where she is even more adrift. The poverty and violence and absolute feeling that one cannot do anything to ever stop the suffering, but that one should still try to do as much good as they can, make Africa the right place to awaken Pilgrim's shaken soul and return a semblance of meaning to the fact that her heart is still beating.