A New York Times Bestseller • A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Book • A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year • A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week • A Publishers Weekly Book of the Week

“Family tragedy leads to almost unbearable darkness but also renewal and hope for a young man in this excellent memoir… Boast writes with unsparing clarity, in precisely observed domestic scenes that reveal mountains of unspoken feeling… A  finely wrought, wrenching yet lyrical study of a family that lives on past its seeming end.”
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“The book that stayed with me the longest is Will Boast’s memoir EPILOGUE. It’s a finely wrought and unsparing account of the loss of the author’s family… devastatingly sad and yet beautifully written with clarity, precision, and a truly effective structure. The first chapter alone is so powerful that I’ve read it aloud to friends. If you are a reader who can handle this type of grief, then this book is not to be missed.” 
Annie Coreno,  Publishers Weekly, on her favorite book in 2014

“Boast, an accomplished fiction writer and essayist, has composed a moving, elegantly contrapuntal narrative about coming to terms with his families—the one he lost, and the one that welcomed him with open arms.”
Elle, 2014 Readers' Prize for Memoir

"Blew me away and kept me riveted, absolutely locked in its orbit for days…. Will Boast’s memoir, Epilogue, [is] about grief and—in the best, subtlest, utterly un-cloying ways—the possibility of unexpected renewal. There’s a chapter about Boast’s attempt to write a short story about his brother—after his death, giving him life somewhere else—that will stay with me for a long time, a man crafting an alternative narrative to hold what he’s haunted by."
Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams

“Don’t let the title of Will Boast’s magnificent memoir fool you. Epilogue is about beginnings as much as endings, discovering as much as losing family. It’s honest, heartbreaking, gorgeously written, and hands down the most moving book I’ve read this year.”
Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena