Time is viewed in terms of what has been, not what is to come.Įverything has already happened and cannot happen again. “To love again,” he writes, “you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you’ll need to carry on.”įor the lost souls of the world, Athens is a place not to find themselves, but to find others like them. If there is one book published this year that you read, let it be this.
It is about adoration, grief and–my number one literary wheelhouse–the chronically lonely. Everything Beautiful Began After is both a stolen kiss and the aching memory of the best stolen kisses.
Let me be clear from the start: Simon Van Booy has written an extraordinary novel. Love will heal us, love will show us the way through, and in the end, it’s true–love is all you need. It breaks through calcified pain and loneliness, and it will nourish our souls when we recognize its many forms.
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