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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... of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. FIRST EDITION: June 2016 For my parents “All water has a perfect memory and.
... of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. FIRST EDITION: June 2016 For my parents “All water has a perfect memory and.
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... that his wife does not trust him enough to share whatever is going on in her life. He does not want his marriage to slip into that of his parents', one that was virulent, destructive. Even when he was just a young boy,
... that his wife does not trust him enough to share whatever is going on in her life. He does not want his marriage to slip into that of his parents', one that was virulent, destructive. Even when he was just a young boy,
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... parents' profound unhappiness, flinching at the hurtful words they constantly hurled at each other. His parents' lives had drifted apart, taking separate paths, until they were practically strangers living under the same roof. For a ...
... parents' profound unhappiness, flinching at the hurtful words they constantly hurled at each other. His parents' lives had drifted apart, taking separate paths, until they were practically strangers living under the same roof. For a ...
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... parents, their angry voices penetrating the walls of his room. Wei Xiang was stunned by the news, and by the fact that he had been kept in the dark for such a long time, and at the same time he was intrigued by this secret part of their ...
... parents, their angry voices penetrating the walls of his room. Wei Xiang was stunned by the news, and by the fact that he had been kept in the dark for such a long time, and at the same time he was intrigued by this secret part of their ...
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O Thiam Chin. parents' breakup, and to this end he devoted himself, sticking to his routine and habits with a doggedness that left little to chance. His father, on the other hand, became a pale shade of the man he was before the divorce ...
O Thiam Chin. parents' breakup, and to this end he devoted himself, sticking to his routine and habits with a doggedness that left little to chance. His father, on the other hand, became a pale shade of the man he was before the divorce ...
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