Free Read Afterlife by Julia Alvarez (Goodreads Author) - MAA
The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garca Girls Lost Their AccentsAntonia Vega the immigrant writer atthe center ofAfterlife has had the rugpulled out from under her. She has justretired from the college where she taught Englishwhen her beloved husband Sam suddenly dies.The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garca Girls Lost Their AccentsAntonia Vega the immigrant writer atthe center ofAfterlife has had the rugpulled out from under her. She has justretired from the college where she taught Englishwhen her beloved husband Sam suddenly dies.And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstablesister disappears and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant undocumentedteenager on her doorstep. Antonia has alwayssought direction in the literature she loves?linesfrom her favorite authors play in her head likea soundtrack?but now she finds that the worlddemands more of her than words.Afterlifeis a compact nimble and sharplydroll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalismand distrust it asks: What do we owe those incrisis in our families including?maybe especially?members of our human family? How do welive in a broken world without losing faith in oneanother or ourselves? And how do we stay trueto those glorious souls we have lost?(less)
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