![]() ![]() Full of clever staccato sentences (“Most nights, he watches television. Using restraint and a subtle dose of foreshadowing, Van Booy (Everything Beautiful Began After) expertly entangles these disparate lives but it’s what he leaves out that captures the imagination. Hugo is a disfigured Nazi soldier atoning for his crimes Martin is a French caretaker at a retirement home for aging starlets Amelia is a blind 20-something searching for love while setting up programs for the sightless at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and John survived the crash of his B-24 plane over Nazi-occupied France to join the French resistance. The story is based on actual events and told from the perspective of six distantly related characters in alternating chapters stretching from New York in 1939 to France throughout WWII, and to East Sussex, England, and Los Angeles, Calif., both in 2010 it quietly unfolds around a multigenerational family ravaged by war, loss, and regret. ![]() The latest addition to Van Booy’s eclectic literary repertoire is a fractured but fine-tuned narrative revealed through the sum of its pieced-together parts. ![]()
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