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"A morally complex and life-affirming exploration of what it means to be alive, and of the enduring power of love to transform, reanimate, and redeem." --Celeste Ng, New York Times-bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts
Caleb was driving home for Christmas. Steven was pounding beers at a local bar. Matthew was out looking for his ex-girlfriend. Leo was walking in the woods on a winter night. Then they disappeared. Days, weeks, years later, their bodies turn up in icy rivers hundreds of miles apart. How did they get there? What, if anything, connects them? Some of their loved ones believe the official answers. Some are convinced the boys are victims of an insidious network called the Smiley Face Killers. Some are trying to forget them altogether. Meanwhile, Caleb, Steven, Matthew, and Leo find one other--and other boys like them--in the murky depths of the afterlife. Each tells his story in his own way, speaking his version of truth, confessing his desires and grievances and even his hopes for a future he still somehow believes belongs to him. Each revelation brings the reader deeper into their intertwined fates, along a journey through the landscapes of identity, intimacy, and the haunting echoes of unresolved grief.
Author: Christopher Castellani
Publisher: Viking
Published: 02/17/2026
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.11h x 6.11w x 1.31d
ISBN: 9798217061037
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2026
Booklist 02/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 12/01/2025
About the Author
Christopher Castellani is the author, most recently, of the novel Leading Men. He has written three previous novels--the trilogy A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love--and The Art of Perspective, a book of essays on the craft of fiction. The winner of a 2024 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim, and a Mass Cultural Council Fellowship, he is the current writer in residence at Brandeis University. He lives in Boston and Provincetown.
Caleb was driving home for Christmas. Steven was pounding beers at a local bar. Matthew was out looking for his ex-girlfriend. Leo was walking in the woods on a winter night. Then they disappeared. Days, weeks, years later, their bodies turn up in icy rivers hundreds of miles apart. How did they get there? What, if anything, connects them? Some of their loved ones believe the official answers. Some are convinced the boys are victims of an insidious network called the Smiley Face Killers. Some are trying to forget them altogether. Meanwhile, Caleb, Steven, Matthew, and Leo find one other--and other boys like them--in the murky depths of the afterlife. Each tells his story in his own way, speaking his version of truth, confessing his desires and grievances and even his hopes for a future he still somehow believes belongs to him. Each revelation brings the reader deeper into their intertwined fates, along a journey through the landscapes of identity, intimacy, and the haunting echoes of unresolved grief.
Author: Christopher Castellani
Publisher: Viking
Published: 02/17/2026
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.11h x 6.11w x 1.31d
ISBN: 9798217061037
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2026
Booklist 02/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 12/01/2025
About the Author
Christopher Castellani is the author, most recently, of the novel Leading Men. He has written three previous novels--the trilogy A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love--and The Art of Perspective, a book of essays on the craft of fiction. The winner of a 2024 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim, and a Mass Cultural Council Fellowship, he is the current writer in residence at Brandeis University. He lives in Boston and Provincetown.
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