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After Elias

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Description

When the airplane Elias is flying crashes into the sea one week before their wedding day, Coen is left with nothing but a cryptic message. As fragments of the past come to the surface in the aftermath, Coen is forced to question everything he thought he knew about Elias and their life together.

Product Details

PublisherDundurn Press
Publish DateOctober 06, 2020
Pages296
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781459746428
Dimensions8.5 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches | 0.8 pounds

About the Author

Eddy Boudel Tan writes stories that uncover how strange and extraordinary life can be, some of which can be found in Joyland, yolk, Gertrude Press, and the G&LR. His debut novel, After Elias, was released in 2020. Eddy lives in Vancouver.

Reviews

After Elias promises from the start to be a puzzle. This is no simple mystery, and the layered psychological struggles and revelations kept me furiously turning pages until the very end. With chapters that shift through time along with the narrator's emotions, a cast of very real but relatable secondary characters, and a haunting sense of the past, After Elias gifts the reader with gorgeous, economic prose and the pace of a thriller. I couldn't put it down.
A truly rare and wonderful book, utterly engrossing throughout. Coen is a hero for our era, darkly struggling amid the aftershocks of loss, but doing so with dignity, humanity, and passion. Tracking Coen's progress towards answers is a riveting and emotional journey. Watching him in his relationships is a richly rewarding meditation on love, friendship, betrayal and the undying hope for reconciliation.
Arresting... [a] deftly crafted novel.
Eddy Boudel Tan has crafted a page turner from a set of unlikely ingredients - tragedy, grief, pain and the darker shadows of the human mind. But most of all he has written tenderly, resplendently, about love.
Eddy Boudel Tan has written an immersive, unpredictable, engaging first novel propelled by mystery, softened by tenderness, and enriched with little wisdoms.
In his heartfelt and highly engaging debut, Eddy Boudel Tan asks us to stare into the dark waters of one man's personal tragedy and help make sense of the pieces that wash up onto the shore. At times mysterious and surprising, [After Elias] is a compelling and tightly bound examination of grief, shame, doubt and the darkness that conspires to dissolve our most beloved relationships. A joy to read.
In After Elias, [Eddy Boudel Tan] challenges normative perceptions of grief and healing, he reiterates the harm of keeping secrets, and he advocates the importance of mental health...I would recommend this novel to anyone interested in a psychological rollercoaster.
Intriguing... The novel has plenty of rewards
It's rare to find a book that works well as a deeply emotional exploration of grief and as a suspenseful thriller, but After Elias manages this feat.
One of the most anticipated LGBTQ books of October 2020
The novel is sad, beautiful, and haunting.

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