Gail Godwin Readers’ Editions Feature Asheville Collaboration A new “Reader’s Circle” edition of Gail Godwin’s 2003 novel, “Evenings at Five” not only features five additional stories by the author, but also a reader’s guide and an author interview by Asheville writer Rob Neufeld. Godwin, raised in Asheville and now living in Woodstock, New York, includes among her award-winning and best-selling fiction, a few novels based on Asheville settings, including “A Southern Family” and “A Mother and Two Daughters.” The Ballantine paperback edition of “Evenings at Five” supplies twenty-seven pages of discussion questions and “A Conversation with Gail Godwin,” exploring such subjects as the aftermath of the death of a loved one, personal religion, and the relationship between autobiography and fiction. Godwin’s 1984 novel, “The Finishing School,” is also being published by Ballantine with a reader’s guide created by Neufeld. Neufeld is the book reviewer for the Asheville Citizen-Times and the director of “Together We Read: What if all Western North Carolina Read the Same Book.” He is currently working with Godwin, editing her journals. For more about the Ballantine Reader’s Circle edition, visit www.randomhouse.com/BB/read/.