TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butler,Tommy
TI  - Before you go: a novel 
SN  - 9780062934963
AV  - PS3602.U8547 B44 2020
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Boys
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Loneliness
KW  - Alienation (Social psychology)
KW  - Existentialism
KW  - Self-help groups
KW  - Conscience, Examination of
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - FICTION / Coming of Age
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Friendship
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - fast
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - sears
KW  - Accountants
KW  - Suicide
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Creation
KW  - Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Manhattan
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Novels
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "In the Before, humankind is created with a hole in its heart, the designers not realizing their mistake -- if it was a mistake -- until too late. Elliot Chance is just a boy, and knows nothing of this. All he knows is that he doesn't feel at home in this world, and his desire for escape becomes more urgent as he grows into adulthood, where the turbulence of life seems to offer no cure for the emptiness. Desperate and lost, he stumbles upon a support group on the edge of Manhattan. There he meets two other drifting souls -- Sasha, a young woman who leaves coded messages in the copy she writes for advertising campaigns, and Bannor, whose detailed depictions of the future make Elliot think he may have actually been there. With these two unlikely allies, Elliot launches into the business of life, determined to be happy in spite of himself. Yet the hole in the heart is not so easily filled." --
ER  -