Ever After

A Novel

What will everyday life be like in eternity? Anita Sullivan’s “Ever After” surprises us with a new dimension, a place like Eden where deepest human desires are fulfilled. Friends travel in groups through dreaming –– from a Maine woods cabin, Australia, New Zealand, and Greece. Libraries become universes when friends travel into books that become a new reality. All is good until a centaur complicates eternity on the Greek island Ikaria. “Invoking epic and myth, classics and fairy tales, the back of C.S. Lewis’s closet and the through-side of Lewis Carroll’s looking glass, and drawing upon the elaborately detailed Greek architecture of her own fertile imagination, Anita Sullivan slingshots us over the rainbow, through the deep dark woods, then down the rabbit hole into a complex vision of eternal life as a sort of improvised jazz. This is a tale unlike any you’ve ever read, and Sullivan tells it in a prose as musical as it is richly imagistic.” — Rick Borsten, author of “The Great Equalizer” and “Rainbow Rhapsody” Anita Sullivan is a poet, essayist and translator, whose first book, The Seventh Dragon: The Riddle of Equal Temperament, won the Western States Arts Foundation creative nonfiction award. She has published “Garden of Beasts,” a poetry collection, as well as “Ikaria: A Love Odyssey on a Greek Island,” a travel memoir, which like “Ever After,” features the same island in the Aegean—Ikaria.