Before Everything (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Victoria Redel | knygos.lt

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A luminous and richly layered novel evoking The Big Chill the story of a group of lifetime friends who gather together to confront life, love, and now mortality.

Before Everythingis a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known each another since they were girls. They ve faced everything together, from youthful sprees and scrapes to mid-life turning points. Now, as Anna, the group s trailblazer and brightest spark, enters hospice, they gather to do what they ve always done talk and laugh and help each other make choices and plans, this time in Anna s rural Massachusetts home. Helen, Anna s best friend and a celebrated painter, is about to remarry. The others face their own challenges Caroline with her sister s mental health crisis; Molly with a teenage daughter s rebellion; Ming with her law practice dilemmas with kids and work and love.Before Everythingis as funny as it is bittersweet, as the friends revel in the hilarious mistakes they ve seen each another through, the secrets kept, and adventures shared. But now all sense of time has shifted, and the pattern of their lives together takes on new meaning. The noveloffers a brilliant, emotionally charged portrait, deftly conveying the sweep of time over everyday lives, and showing how even in difficult endings, gifts can unfold. Above all it is an ode to friendship, and to how one person shapes the journeys of those around her."