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Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt — Until It Wasn’t
Can a novel comfort you about a death it makes you watch?Ben Reeves’s Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt imagines Death as Travis Smith, a quiet man in jeans and a T-shirt who spends eternity sitting beside people in their final moments. He does not judge, interfere or change what is coming. Until a stray cat leads him across the hall to a midwife, her two daughters, and an ordinary human life he was never supposed to become part of.What begins as a gentle meditation on mortality gradually becomes something heavier. Travis, who knows exactly when everyone will die, discovers what it…
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