![]() Paul ruminates on this question for decades turning to drugs, art, and eventually therapy for answers.Īgain, we find no clear answer here. Leon might say the answer lies in love and keeping family close. An alternate reality where things have gone their way. ![]() ![]() It should come as no surprise that each character will give you a completely different answer. For one of the characters, the only way forward is through the mind. How do we define resilience in the face of such loss? Years later, when an international Ponzi scheme collapses, Vincent disappears in an attempt to move on elsewhere, largely unscathed. Vincent and a shipping executive, Leon Prevant, do see the message however. Paul, Vincent’s estranged half-brother who also works at the hotel, leaves a nasty message on the hotel window for Alkaitis, but he never sees it. ![]() One night, Alkaitis slips Vincent a tip with his business card and it sparks the beginning of their life together. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a luxury hotel owned by Jonathan Alkaitis, a man who works in finance. ![]() Whose story is this? Is this all really happening? And just when you think you’re certain, off the page leaps more fragmented bits of poetic prose and suddenly you’re with Vincent’s brother more than two decades in the past. “Begin at the end.” The book starts inside the mind of Vincent as she dreams. ![]()
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