Our Souls at Night

Kent Haruf

A quiet, spare novel set in the small fictional town of Holt, Colorado, about two elderly widowed neighbors, Addie Moore and Louis Waters, who begin spending nights together simply talking and finding companionship after years of solitude. Their unconventional arrangement draws the attention and judgment of the town and their own grown children, testing the fragile new connection they've built. It's Kent Haruf's final novel, written while he was dying, and it reflects on loneliness, aging, and the courage to seek intimacy late in life.