Open, Heaven
By Seán Hewitt
By Seán Hewitt
By Seán Hewitt
By Seán Hewitt
By Seán Hewitt
By Seán Hewitt
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$28.00
Apr 15, 2025 | ISBN 9780593802847
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Apr 15, 2025 | ISBN 9780593802854
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Apr 15, 2025 | ISBN 9798217065738
420 Minutes
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Praise
“Seán Hewitt’s Open, Heaven blisses with the bright verdure of youth—blackbirds and blossoming hedges, wet hands held tight under buttery starlight. But Open, Heaven also courses with youth’s great agony, the cruelty that learning to love should be inexorably followed by learning to grieve its undoing. Hewitt’s is a searching novel orbiting pleasure, loss, and the ecstatic release of both; which is to say it’s a novel about time. Which is to say it’s a novel about us.” —Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!
“Seán Hewitt’s Open, Heaven is a striking debut novel from a richly gifted poet and memoirist: an intensely conjured portrayal of the hopeless, all-consuming love of one lonely teenager for another and how it marks him for life. As in Hewitt’s poetry, the beauties of nature erupt throughout, seeming to express the things the two boys cannot voice and the cumulative effect is as bittersweet and elegiac as birdsong.” —Patrick Gale, author of A Place Called Winter
“Hewitt writes with such tenderness and grace; in Open, Heaven, beauty, longing and the natural world form a single chord that strikes the heart of the reader with love’s impossibility. The heightened, poetic state of adolescence is perfectly captured here.” —Anne Enright, author of The Wren, the Wren
“A searchingly poignant and beautiful novel about how a first love can shape a whole life, Open, Heaven is a deeply felt, lyrical and impossibly tender read. Hewitt exquisitely conjures the passage of time and all the complexities of growing up queer, perfectly captures the way places and events become stitched into memory, and elucidates with rare power how transfixing, incandescent, and transfiguring a first love can be. It made my heart hurt in the best ways.” — Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk
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