Afterlife / a novel by Julia Alvarez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alvarez, Julia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Responsibility.

Widows--Fiction.

Widows.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Noncitizens--Fiction.

Noncitizens.

Illegal immigration--Fiction.

Illegal immigration.

Responsibility--Fiction.

Undocumented immigrants.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

256 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020.

Summary:

"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

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9781643750255

1643750259

OCLC:

1105247946

Publisher Number:

99984106349