****"Ridiculously good" (_The New York Times_) author **Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out).** Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Reviv
Afterlife: a novel
โ Scribed by Julia Alvarez
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 135 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- ISBN
- 1643750259
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year:O, The Oprah Magazine * The New York Times * Vogue * Bustle * Buzzfeed * The Millions * The Lily * Goodreads * Library Journal * LitHub * Electric Literature
The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garc ia Girls Lost Their Accents
"A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own." --Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X
Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife , has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more...
โฆ Subjects
Responsibility -- Fiction
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