![]() ![]() In the aftermath of tragedy, Van Booy explores how travelers can get lost in the world, painting their outside experiences with inside pain. Together, these self-exiled loners build a fierce connection amidst the sweltering streets of Athens and glittering Aegean seas, only to see it smashed into rubble by an earthquake. Rebecca is a beautiful French ex-flight attendant and budding painter. Henry is a British apprentice archaeologist with a terrible childhood secret. ![]() ![]() George is a lonely Southern scholar and hopeless alcoholic. In Simon Van Booy’s novel Everything Beautiful Began After (Harper Perennial), three youths form an unlikely romantic triangle in modern-day Athens, then struggle with the tragic ruin it becomes. PHOTO COURTESY OF KEN BROWARįinding love in exotic, foreign climes is a fantasy. ![]()
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