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'Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt' imagines Death next door

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Scott Detrow, Janaya Williams

Published July 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM EDT

In Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt, author Ben Reeves imagines Death as an ordinary man. He talks with NPR's Scott Detrow about love, loss and what mortality can teach us about living.

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