Afterlife / a novel by Julia Alvarez.
"A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"-- Provided by publisher.
Antonia Vega 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, but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words. Now she questions: How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? -- adapted from jacket
Record details
- ISBN: 9781643750255
- ISBN: 1643750259
- Physical Description: 256 pages ; 19 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : broken English -- Here there be dragons -- Where is Burkina Faso? -- Rules of sisterhood -- To be missing is not a crime -- Bar a luz -- Who is the most important one? -- Objects in mirror are closer than they appear -- All it takes -- Air quotes -- Cuckoos in Kyoto -- As if -- Harvest -- Epilogue : Japanese repair technique. |
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Subject: | Authors > Fiction. Widows > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Noncitizens > Fiction. Noncitizens > Fiction. Illegal immigration > Fiction. Responsibility > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 28 of 29 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Crawford County. (Show)
Holds
- 1 current hold with 29 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Crawford County Library-Steelville | F ALV (Text) | 33431000509602 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Adair County Public Library | A F Alvarez (Text) | 34029002511300 | Fiction | Available | - |
Camden County Library District - Camdenton | FIC ALVAREZ (Text) | 31320003745903 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cape Girardeau Public Library | ALV (Text) | 33042004680313 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Garden City | F ALV 2020 (Text) | 0002205538289 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Harrisonville | F ALV 2020 (Text) | 0002205628395 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | F ALV 2020 (Text) | 0002205628361 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Northwest | F ALVAREZ Julia (Text) | 30051000303534 | Fiction | Available | - |
Keller Public Library-Dexter | A Fic Alv (Text) | 3376400000042 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Lebanon-Laclede County Library | F Alvarez (Text) | 3803704774 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Afterlife
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Summary
Afterlife
A Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020 A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine * The New York Times * The Washington Post * Vogue * Bustle * BuzzFeed * Ms. m agazine * The Millions * Huffington Post * PopSugar * The Lily * Goodreads * Library Journal * LitHub * Electric Literature "The In the Time of the Butterflies icon makes a satisfying and long-awaited return to adult fiction with this kind tale of grief and sisterhood. ...deeply poignant." -- Entertainment Weekly "A gorgeously intimate portrait of an immigrant writer and recent widow carving out hope in the face of personal and political grief." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "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 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 without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost?