Everything Beautiful Began After

“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

From Simon Van Booy, the award-winning author of Love Begins in Winter and The Secret Lives of People in Love, comes adebut novel of longing and discovery amidst the ruins of Athens. With echoes of Alison Krauss’s TheHistory of Love and Charles Baxter’s The Feast of Love, Van Booy’s resonant taleofthree isolated, disaffected adults discovering one another in Greece is the compelling product of an inquisitive, visionary talent. In the words of Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, “Simon Van Booy knows a great deal about the complex longings of the human heart.”