Everything Beautiful Began After: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “A powerful meditation on the undying nature of love and the often cruel beauty of one’s own fate. This is a novel you simply must read!”

  — Andre Dubus III, New York Times bestselling author of Townie

• “Achingly beautiful, this book illuminates the need in us all for true connection in a life that often renders itself in fragments and artifacts and small bursts of color.”

  — Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

• “Van Booy’s writing rings with the proverbial pithiness of Oscar Wilde, the elegance of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the clarity of Graham Greene, and the wit of Evelyn Waugh, conjuring a strong voice full of poetic, timeless grace of which much of the contemporary literary scene is starved.”

  — San Francisco Examiner

• “A tender, earnest first novel…The rhythms of Henry’s tender, damaged heart propel the narrative, and Van Booy wisely resists romanticizing torment, instead suggesting that grief—tied as it is to fate and faith—can give way to promise.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “A little patience will be taken in by the carefully etched stories and lyrically precise and inventive language. A lovely book.”

  — Library Journal

• “Everything Beautiful Began After both creates and satisfies a feeling of wanderlust. Van Booy’s confident prose carries the reader over oceans and back again, into archaeological digs and airport hotels, and the romance at the center of the book stays vivid long after the story is through.”

  — Emma Straub, author of Other People We Married