Epilogue: A Memoir [Paperback]

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed, Wise, charming and deeply moving. It is during these unspoken moments that the author deftly captures the fleeting intimacy between father and son&The power of Boast, an accomplished fiction writer and essayist, has composed a moving, elegantly contrapuntal narrative about coming to terms with his familiesthe one he lost, and the one that welcomed him with open arms. Excellent. . . . [A] finely wrought, wrenching yet lyrical study of a familythat lives on past its seeming end. This remarkable memoir is written with extraordinary care, intelligence, and honesty. Though the material is powerful to begin with, what makes it work so well is its authorial voice: a rare combination of rawness and restraint, probing and delicacy, self-laceration and tenderness toward others. In short, it's fully alive. Don't let the title of Will Boasts magnificent memoir fool you A brave, brilliant, masterfully crafted story about an ordinary family's extraordinary collision of tragedies and secrets. Will Boast's efforts to write his familys epilogueto forge a space for his own life through understanding theirsmake for one of the most moving and transformative reading experiences I've had. I won't ever forget it. Riveting, soulful, and courageously told, Will Boast's memoir is a gorgeous meditation on grief and family and also a deeply personal account of his coming of age under a relentless bombardment of tragedies and revelations. Never has a story of loss been so full of life. The story of Elegiac and unsentimental, What if you lost your family, only to discover you had another? Will Boast's unforgettable memoir explores this seemingly impossible question in a straightforward yet lyrical language that infuses these pages with both wistfulness and hope. With a father-son relationship as complex and tortured as that in Knausgaard's [S]pellbinding& [Boasts] affecting journey, related without sentimentality or self-pity, il3�