Now That It's Over<Winner of the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize> During the Christmas holidays in 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami that devastates fourteen countries. Two couples from Singapore are vacationing in Phuket when the tsunami strikes. Alternating between the aftermath of the catastrophe and past events that led these characters to that fateful moment, Now That It’s Over weaves a tapestry of causality and regret, and chronicles the physical and emotional wreckage wrought by natural and manmade disasters. |
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... felt betrayed by the secrecy that had led to nothing but pain for all of them. Yet, even the birth of Wei Xiang's younger brother, two years after the death of the unknown brother, did little to obviate what was ultimately the end of ...
... felt betrayed by the secrecy that had led to nothing but pain for all of them. Yet, even the birth of Wei Xiang's younger brother, two years after the death of the unknown brother, did little to obviate what was ultimately the end of ...
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... felt too tight on her hips. She should have worn a different ensemble, perhaps the blouse and skirt she had bought last month; she knew she would have looked better in it. She tried to smooth out the creases in the dress with her free ...
... felt too tight on her hips. She should have worn a different ensemble, perhaps the blouse and skirt she had bought last month; she knew she would have looked better in it. She tried to smooth out the creases in the dress with her free ...
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... felt constrained by the evernarrowing possibility of her choices, as if she were slowly working her way into tight corners and deadends. She was fearful of how her life could be neatly parcelled into fixed pigeonholes that would define ...
... felt constrained by the evernarrowing possibility of her choices, as if she were slowly working her way into tight corners and deadends. She was fearful of how her life could be neatly parcelled into fixed pigeonholes that would define ...
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... felt battered by his accusation. Ai Ling had always known what she wanted, or at least what she did not want: her relationship with Ian. She had tried almost everything to keep them together: putting Ian's needs before hers, being more ...
... felt battered by his accusation. Ai Ling had always known what she wanted, or at least what she did not want: her relationship with Ian. She had tried almost everything to keep them together: putting Ian's needs before hers, being more ...
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... felt a sort of fascination about what the woman had done, to give up what she had with Wei Xiang to be a mistress to a married man. The break with Ian was not as clean as Ai Ling had wanted. Though she had ignored all his calls and ...
... felt a sort of fascination about what the woman had done, to give up what she had with Wei Xiang to be a mistress to a married man. The break with Ian was not as clean as Ai Ling had wanted. Though she had ignored all his calls and ...
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