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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... thoughts scatter in every direction. You peer at the television screen from your position on the floor: the patches ... thought is held at bay. The only thing you can feel is a debilitating heaviness, seeping into every part of you—it is ...
... thoughts scatter in every direction. You peer at the television screen from your position on the floor: the patches ... thought is held at bay. The only thing you can feel is a debilitating heaviness, seeping into every part of you—it is ...
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... The shadows hesitate, then move away, footsteps fading down the corridor. You stay very still, close your eyes and wait to fall into the deep well of your dark, swirling thoughts. 3 CHEE SENG A sharp smell assaults my senses as.
... The shadows hesitate, then move away, footsteps fading down the corridor. You stay very still, close your eyes and wait to fall into the deep well of your dark, swirling thoughts. 3 CHEE SENG A sharp smell assaults my senses as.
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... thoughts, thoughts he would never share with his parents in any case. His faith in his own actions always depended on this belief, and he never swayed from it, even in adulthood. Later, of course, he came to know the reason for the ...
... thoughts, thoughts he would never share with his parents in any case. His faith in his own actions always depended on this belief, and he never swayed from it, even in adulthood. Later, of course, he came to know the reason for the ...
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... thoughts on becoming one himself. He told Ai Ling more than once of his decision to delay their parenthood after they were married, and he knew Ai Ling silently took heed of it, though he could see it hurt her and conflicted with her ...
... thoughts on becoming one himself. He told Ai Ling more than once of his decision to delay their parenthood after they were married, and he knew Ai Ling silently took heed of it, though he could see it hurt her and conflicted with her ...
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... thought of lost opportunities or opportunity costs: “I make my own opportunities.” At a different stage in her life, Ai Ling might have rolled her eyes at the bland, narrow truth of this trope. She had, in fact, done that with Ian, but ...
... thought of lost opportunities or opportunity costs: “I make my own opportunities.” At a different stage in her life, Ai Ling might have rolled her eyes at the bland, narrow truth of this trope. She had, in fact, done that with Ian, but ...
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