Afterlife By : Julia Alvarez
Book Excerpt :
The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garc?a Girls Lost Their AccentsAntonia 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 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 favorite 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
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