Twenty-three-year-old Frits—office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes— finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit. Darkly funny and mesmerising, The Evenings takes the tiny, quotidian triumphs and heartbreaks of our everyday lives and turns them into a work of brilliant wit and profound beauty.

Collinsport is broken. David Collins is intent on rebuilding the town, and enlists the help of his old friend Amy Cunningham. As they reconnect and discover feelings they never knew existed, another woman from David’s past is about to make a return...