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The Evening Party

by Hannah Cao




The Evening Party is a series of prose and poems, unveiling hidden stories of strangers brought together for the same rooftop party in London.

They are each riddled with the anxieties of modern age, the complexities of love, the challenges of dysfunctional families and other intricate relationships, and a pervasive sense of being trapped in their own existence.

This collection reveals a poignant tapestry of human connection and isolation. The Evening Party unveils the extraordinary in the mundane, breathing life into the passage of time and the memories that define us. The Evening Party is a mirror, an usher, and a reminder to savour moments that otherwise slip through our fingers unnoticed.








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Praise for the book



If her first poetry collection Seashore was a seabed sparkling with saltwater pearls, then Cao has, in The Evening Party, made of these pearls a necklace and hung them on the corner of an oil painting’s golden frame. This new collection of prose and poetry is strung differently, it feels like not just a window, but an opened one.The poems feel like sitting on the edge of a sofa on New Year’s Eve, drink in hand, laughter in your mouth and inner turmoil in your heart.
– Sallie Lundh, Apricity



The Evening Party beautifully captures the many ways that people weave in and out of each other’s lives, leaving behind memories and questions that linger with us. You will pick up threads throughout the book of people living their separate lives, and how their paths have crossed over the years. Cao paints vivid pictures of life’s mundanities in poems and prose that bubble with youth and wonder, yet ache with the memory of long-abandoned flames. The Evening Party invites you to revisit the past beneath tipsy moonlight and discover almost-forgotten stories that are both complex and tender.
– Jasmine S. Higgins, Mermaid Lungs