Everything Beautiful Began After: A Novel

“Apowerful meditation on the undying nature of love and the often cruel beauty ofone’s own fate. This is a novel you simply must read!” —Andre Dubus III, New York Times bestselling author of Townie

FromSimon Van Booy, the award-winning author of LoveBegins in Winter and The Secret Lives of People in Love, comesadebut novel of longing and discovery amidst the ruins of Athens. Withechoes of Nicole Krauss’s TheHistory of Love and CharlesBaxter’s The Feast of Love, Van Booy’sresonant taleofthreeisolated, disaffected adults discovering one another in Greece is thecompelling product of an inquisitive, visionary talent. In the words of RobertOlen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a StrangeMountain, “Simon Van Booy knows a great deal about the complex longings of thehuman heart.”