Afterlife
Alvarez, Julia2020
Large Print
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The first adult novel in almost 15 years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the centre 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 jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves – lines from her favourite authors play in her head like a soundtrack – but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words. Afterlife is a compact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including – maybe especially - members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost?
Main title:
Afterlife / by Julia Alvarez.
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Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2020.©2020.
Collation:
287 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781432881948
Language:
English
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BRN:
384963
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Large Print - Fiction | ALVARE | Available |