Before Everything
Victoria Redel
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A group of lifetime friends gather together to confront life, love, and now mortality
âEverything you want a novel about life, death, and friendship to beâsmart, moving, sweeping, poetic, stinging, just beautiful. I loved these women (and their men) and this elegy to their long-reaching bonds.â
âDani Shapiro, author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known each another since they were girls. Theyâve faced everything together, from youthful sprees and scrapes to mid-life turning points. Now, as Anna, the groupâs trailblazer and brightest spark, enters hospice, they gather to do what theyâve always doneâtalk and laugh and help each other make choices and plans, this time in Annaâs rural Massachusetts home. Helen, Annaâs best friend and a celebrated painter, is about to remarry. The others face their own challengesâCaroline with her sisterâs mental health crisis; Molly with a teenage daughterâs rebellion; Ming with her law practiceâdilemmas with kids and work and love. Before Everything is as funny as it is bittersweet, as the friends revel in the hilarious mistakes theyâve 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 novel offers 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.
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrightedworks:âTattered Kaddishâ. Copyright ÂĐ 1991 by Adrienne Rich. Copyright ÂĐ 2016 by the Adrienne RichLiterary Trust. From Collected Poems 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of W. W. Norton& Company, Inc.âStayinâ Alive,â words and music by Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, and Robin Gibb. Copyright ÂĐ 1977(renewed) Crompton Songs LLC and Gibb Brothers Music. All rights for Crompton Songs LLCadministered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission of AlfredMusic.âSunlight,â words and music by Jesse Colin Young. Copyright ÂĐ 1969 by Pigfoot Music. Reprinted bypermission of Jesse Colin Young.âWillinâ,â by Lowell George. Copyright ÂĐ 1994 by Naked Snake Music. Reprinted by permission ofElizabeth George.âAngel from Montgomery,â words and music by John Prine. Copyright ÂĐ 1971 (renewed) Walden Music,Inc. and Sour Grapes Music. All rights administered by WB Music Corp. All rights reserved. Used bypermission of Alfred Music.
âEverything you want a novel about life, death, and friendship to beâsmart, moving, sweeping, poetic, stinging, just beautiful. I loved these women (and their men) and this elegy to their long-reaching bonds.â
âDani Shapiro, author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known each another since they were girls. Theyâve faced everything together, from youthful sprees and scrapes to mid-life turning points. Now, as Anna, the groupâs trailblazer and brightest spark, enters hospice, they gather to do what theyâve always doneâtalk and laugh and help each other make choices and plans, this time in Annaâs rural Massachusetts home. Helen, Annaâs best friend and a celebrated painter, is about to remarry. The others face their own challengesâCaroline with her sisterâs mental health crisis; Molly with a teenage daughterâs rebellion; Ming with her law practiceâdilemmas with kids and work and love. Before Everything is as funny as it is bittersweet, as the friends revel in the hilarious mistakes theyâve 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 novel offers 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.
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrightedworks:âTattered Kaddishâ. Copyright ÂĐ 1991 by Adrienne Rich. Copyright ÂĐ 2016 by the Adrienne RichLiterary Trust. From Collected Poems 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of W. W. Norton& Company, Inc.âStayinâ Alive,â words and music by Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, and Robin Gibb. Copyright ÂĐ 1977(renewed) Crompton Songs LLC and Gibb Brothers Music. All rights for Crompton Songs LLCadministered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission of AlfredMusic.âSunlight,â words and music by Jesse Colin Young. Copyright ÂĐ 1969 by Pigfoot Music. Reprinted bypermission of Jesse Colin Young.âWillinâ,â by Lowell George. Copyright ÂĐ 1994 by Naked Snake Music. Reprinted by permission ofElizabeth George.âAngel from Montgomery,â words and music by John Prine. Copyright ÂĐ 1971 (renewed) Walden Music,Inc. and Sour Grapes Music. All rights administered by WB Music Corp. All rights reserved. Used bypermission of Alfred Music.
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Victoria Redel is the critically acclaimed author of four previous works of fiction and three collections of poetry. Her debut novel, Loverboy, was named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times and won the Sister Mariella Gable Prize from Graywolf Press and the Forward Silver Literary Fiction Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and has contributed to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Elle, O, the Oprah Magazine, Granta, One Story, and the Harvard Review. She received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
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