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Liveright
September 2014
On Sale: September 8, 2014
Featuring: Will Boast
288 pages
ISBN: 0871403811
EAN: 9780871403810
Kindle: B00J8R3RTW
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Non-Fiction Biography
Will Boast thought he'd lost his family, until a deeply held
secret revealed a second chance he never thought he’d have.
Having already lost his mother and only brother,
twenty-four-year-old Will Boast finds himself absolutely
alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling
the matters of his father's estate, Boast is deep inside his
grief when he stumbles upon documents revealing a secret his
father had intended to keep: He’d had another family before
Will's—a wife and two sons in England. This revelation leads to a flood of new questions. Did his
father abandon this first family, or was he pushed away?
Still reeling from loss, Boast is forced to reconsider the
fundamental truths of his childhood and to look for traces
of the man his father might truly have been. Setting out in
search of his half brothers, he attempts to reconcile their
family history with his own, testing each childhood memory
under the weight of his father's secret. Moving between the
Midwest and England, from scenes of his youth to the
tentative discovery of his new family, Boast writes with
visceral beauty about grief, memory, and his slow and tender
journey to a new kind of love.With the piercing gaze of a
novelist, Boast transforms the pain and confusion of his
family history into an achingly poignant portrait of
resilience, revising the stories he's inherited to refashion
both his past and his present. Heartbreaking and luminous,
Epilogue is the stunning account of a young man’s struggle
to understand all that he has lost and found, and to forge a
new life for himself along the way.
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