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Of Beginnings and Ends
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781944521585
Publisher: Deuxmers, LLC
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Of Beginnings and Ends, a literary-speculative novel marks the arrival of a distinctive voice in philosophical fiction.
The novel follows Evelyn, who has always been able to feel the sorrow hiding in others. When she reaches out to a stranger drowning in his grief, she is whisked away to a vast, luminous Hall that demands a choice: pass through a mist-shrouded arch to her best path forward, or a side door offering a detour. Either way, pain awaits - the crucible of transformation or the slow decay of refusing to change. Across the years, Evelyn returns to the Hall without warning, each visit a reckoning with who she has been and who she is becoming.
Kruse calls the form a telography - a story of the soul's becoming. For readers drawn to the allegorical architecture of Susanna Clarke's Piranesi and the surreal grief-landscape of Melissa Broder's Death Valley, the Hall works as a construct of the psyche, where hopes and fears, beliefs and doubts take shape as uncanny landscapes and characters. Witty, numinous, and deeply human, the novel moves through courtship and grief, faith and doubt, marriage and loss, toward love as the thing that survives.
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