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""Haunting, layered, and exquisitely crafted, The Book of Revelations weaves a fractured life into a luminous mosaic of shifting voices and identities, drawing readers into a profound meditation on memory, loss, and the stories we tell to survive long after innocence is gone."" - NewInBooks Every life has a story waiting to be revealed. The Book of Revelations is a haunting, postmodern literary novel that refracts a single life through multiple viewpoints, spanning the American Midwest of the 1960s to the San Francisco of the 1980s. At its center is eight-year-old Nan Jaffe, whose early world collapses in a single night. What follows is not a linear narrative but a mosaic: a marriage quietly unraveling, grandparents attempting a clean break, a teacher offering rescue in the hope of saving himself, a diner waitress watching with older-sister concern, and a poet providing temporary shelter. Each voice sees only a piece; none holds the whole. Nan becomes Robin, Robin becomes Nancy, Nancy becomes Ellen-names changed like addresses, in the hope that distance might erase what cannot be forgotten. Yet the past persists: in nightmares, in a stuffed monkey that listens without judgment, in the echo of a promise made at eight years old. The Book of Revelations refracts a single life through multiple lenses, revealing how memory is subjective, truth elusive, and the past impossible to erase. It is a precise meditation on memory, guilt, and the limits of protection, asking what remains when everything familiar is taken away, and whether some absences can ever be filled-or are simply carried forward until the last story is finally revealed.

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9781732620728

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""Haunting, layered, and exquisitely crafted, The Book of Revelations weaves a fractured life into a luminous mosaic of shifting voices and identities, drawing readers into a profound meditation on memory, loss, and the stories we tell to survive long after innocence is gone."" - NewInBooks

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Mitchell Hadley is a writer and television historian, author of three novels and two books on television's historical and cultural importance.

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