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After Elias
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Dundurn Press
- Publish Date: Oct 6th, 2020
- Pages: 296
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.65in - 0.82lb
- EAN: 9781459746428
- Categories: • Literary• LGBTQ+ - Gay• Family Life - Siblings
About the Author
Boudel Tan, Eddy: -
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.
Praise for this book
Arresting... [a] deftly crafted novel.
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.
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.
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.
Eddy Boudel Tan has written an immersive, unpredictable, engaging first novel propelled by mystery, softened by tenderness, and enriched with little wisdoms.
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
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.
The novel is sad, beautiful, and haunting.
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.