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Afterlife by Julia Alvarez Hardcover
- Item Number
- 179
- Estimated Value
- 26 USD
- Sold
- 19 USD to ceb453999
The winning bid will go to FrontStream Global Fund (tax ID 26-3265577), a 501c3 nonprofit organization, which will send the donation to The North Branch School (tax ID 32-0013815) on behalf of the winner.
- Number of Bids
- 4 - Bid History
Item Description
From the selection of Vermont authors that came from the shelves of the Vermont Book Shop!
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?
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