Epilogue is a grief memoir, as Will Boast’s mother, brother and father all die in quick succession while he is in college. The book focuses mostly on his relationship with his father and the discovery that there Boast has two half-brothers from his father’s prior marriage. The opening chapter where he describes his father’s death is haunting and very compelling writing, as his father’s life-long refusal to complain or show pain results in him refusing to call for help and dying alone in his car […]
“[Books] made the nights stretch out, they made thoughts unfurl, out from the small pool of light cast by my bedside lamp, into the night and out over the prairie…”
Epilogue by Will Boast