April and Oliver

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About April and Oliver

Title: April and Oliver

Author: Tess Callahan

Release Date: June 10, 2010

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Genre: Psychological Fiction

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Best friends since childhood, the sexual tension between April and Oliver has always been palpable. Years after being completely inseparable, they become strangers, but the wildly different paths of their lives cross once again with the sudden death of April’s brother. Oliver, the responsible, newly engaged law student finds himself drawn more than ever to the reckless, mystifying April – and cracks begin to appear in his carefully constructed life.

Even as Oliver attempts to “save” his childhood friend from her grief, her menacing boyfriend and herself, it soon becomes apparent that Oliver has some secrets of his own–secrets he hasn’t shared with anyone, even his fiance. But April knows, and her reappearance in his life derails him. Is it really April’s life that is unraveling, or is it his own? The answer awaits at the end of a downward spiral…towards salvation.

About The Author

Tess Callahan is the author of April & Oliver. Her essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Writer’s Digest, National Public Radio, AGNI, Narrative Magazine, AWP: The Writer’s Notebook, Newsday, The Common, the Best American Poetry blog, and elsewhere. Her TEDx talk on creativity is titled “The Love Affair Between Creativity and Constraint.” Tess is a graduate of Boston College and Bennington College Writing Seminars and teaches creative writing and meditation. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, she lives in Cape Cod and North New Jersey with her family and number one life coach: her dog.

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Praise for April & Oliver

“Tess Callahan is an extraordinarily talented writer- a first rate storyteller with a compelling and graceful style. April and Oliver is a stunning novel that explores the multilayered complexities of love and loss, the kind of novel you pick up to read and do not put down until the last page. An excellent novel by a gifted writer.” ~ Jill McCorkle, Author of Creatures of Habit

“Grappling fates are the DNA of suspense, and Tess Callahan braids loss, longing, romance and violence into a tense, gratifying narrative. The characters in April and Oliver feel inexorable- either destined or doomed to be together. The need to discover which- and how- keeps the reader turning pages.” -Sven Birkerts, Author of Reading Life: Books for the Ages

“I’m sorry to report that since April and Oliver is Tess Callahan’s debut as a novelist, an immediate regret awaits all readers on the last page of this enormously sagacious and compelling book, to wit: that it’s done, finished, consumed; that there are as yet no other Callahan novels to devour, and heaven only knows how long we must wait for the author’s next work to reach our greedy hands. The urgency of Callahan’s narrative and its volatile juxtapositions- innocent passion and dark sexuality; duty and desire; first love and ruined love- make it impossible not to care deeply for these characters and their thwarted yearning and their heart-wrenching stories.” -Bob Shacochis, author of Easy in the Islands

April and Oliver, step-cousins who were close growing up, see each other again at a funeral. Oliver is protective of April who doesn’t make the wisest choices with men. Both characters deal with emotional baggage and there is plenty of drama to go around. We split our time between the past and the present to understand the whys. For a debut novel, I was impressed with the author’s ability to weave a compelling story. – Kim Wilch, One More Exclamation