All Is Beauty Now

Winner of the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for FictionPraise for All Is Beauty Now:"All Is Beauty Now is as redolent and lush as a garden in Rio. Sarah Faber performs a poetic conjuring act of loss, love, and redemption in this haunting novel."  —Ann-Marie MacDonald, author of Adult Onset"Part mystery, part family drama, All Is Beauty Now is a vivid and gripping debut about the pain of living with those among us who burn more brightly and delve deep into the dark. Moving deftly from character to character, Sarah Faber unravels a veritable Gordian knot of family ties, revealing what it takes to stay by a loved one who lives life in extremis—as well as what it takes to cut free." —Alissa York, author of The Naturalist"At once an intimate family portrait, a mystery, a romance, and a stylistic tour de force."  —Johanna Skibsrud, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists"At first blush a deft, kaleidoscopic chronicle of a family's grief after the disappearance of a 20-year-old daughter off the shores of Rio de Janeiro, All Is Beauty Now is an unflinching look at the pervasive effect of secreted mental illness. Like the brilliant swirl of Carnival, the Maurer family's story possesses multiple layers of both splendor and affliction. I lost myself in its white sands, birds of paradise, and madness." —Anne Korkeakivi, author of The Shining Sea"This novel felt alive in my hands as I read it; the writing thrilled me, the setting transported me, and the characters broke my heart. In All Is Beauty Now, Sarah Faber has achieved the rare feat of mixing both gorgeously poetic prose with a plot so absorbing I could hardly look away from its pages. Faber is an important new voice in fiction, and All Is Beauty Now is a masterful and stunning debut." —Amy Stuart, author of Still Mine"For the reader, beauty illuminates every page, the loveliness of Faber's prose bringing light to even the darkest turns and twists of the Maurers' story, like stars across the night sky. A magnificent, compassionate, and beguiling novel from a great new talent." —Rebecca Silver Slayter, author of In the Land of Birdfishes“[A] powerful family novel exploring the twin dangers of romanticism and nostalgia.” —Globe and Mail“Phrase to phrase and sentence to sentence, Faber has given us a luminous, finely written account of a family’s estrangement from itself and from what it reverently dreamed of.” —Winnipeg Free Press