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The Way Things End
A beautifully-written novel exploring the inter-connectedness of various disparate characters in the twentieth century...
The year is 1940 and blues musician Roosevelt Sands is on the run for murder when he lays down in the middle of a southern crossroads and plays a song that initiates the collapse of the universe. What follows is the slow demise of the world, as the music expands outward from its source to the edge of creation and back again. For forty years the music seeks to return to the place from which it came. During this time, a slow unraveling of reality brings forth supernatural events that influence and shape the interconnected lives of people around the world. People like Elena, a refugee child of World War Two, writing stories in rural Romania, and Earn, waking to find the corpse of a giant whale in his back yard. Those who live in the last days do so unknowingly as they are exposed to the strange collapse of the world and universe around them.
The year is 1940 and blues musician Roosevelt Sands is on the run for murder when he lays down in the middle of a southern crossroads and plays a song that initiates the collapse of the universe. What follows is the slow demise of the world, as the music expands outward from its source to the edge of creation and back again. For forty years the music seeks to return to the place from which it came. During this time, a slow unraveling of reality brings forth supernatural events that influence and shape the interconnected lives of people around the world. People like Elena, a refugee child of World War Two, writing stories in rural Romania, and Earn, waking to find the corpse of a giant whale in his back yard. Those who live in the last days do so unknowingly as they are exposed to the strange collapse of the world and universe around them.
234 pages, Hardcover
First published August 8, 2019
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January 16, 2025
5 stars. i already wrote an entire review for this that got deleted and i’m SO sad, but to sum up what i wrote, this story was absolutely phenomenal. it proves that humans are like ants, but we do not see ourselves that way. this novel allows us to take a step back and evaluate our humanity—we are not individually special, yet our actions matter and ripple into the lives of others. this book was both brutally honest and beautiful in that complete honesty. such a wonderful story!
REREAD, 2025:
5 stars. reread this for my bookclub, and once again, it was astounding. i was able to pick up on so much for the second time around reading it. can’t wait to discuss it with my bookclub!
REREAD, 2025:
5 stars. reread this for my bookclub, and once again, it was astounding. i was able to pick up on so much for the second time around reading it. can’t wait to discuss it with my bookclub!
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