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SUMMARY:Book Discussion Group | Afterlife
DESCRIPTION:Join the Friends of the Library book discussion of Afterlife by
  Julia Alvarez on Monday\, April 24th at 6:30 PM! Copies of the book are a
 vailable to check out at the library\, about two weeks in advance\, while 
 supplies last.\nFrom Amazon.com:\n\n\n\nA Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 
 2020\n\nA Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: O\, The Oprah Magazine * The 
 New York Times * The Washington Post *Vogue * Bustle * BuzzFeed * Ms. maga
 zine * The Millions * Huffington Post * PopSugar * The Lily * Goodreads 
 * Library Journal * LitHub * Electric Literature\n\nThe first adult novel 
 in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In th
 e Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents\n\n
 “A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is\, and always has
  been\, in a class of her own.” —Elizabeth Acevedo\, National Book Awa
 rd-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X\n\nAntonia V
 ega\, 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 t
 hen more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears\, and Anton
 ia 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 soundtra
 ck—but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words.\n\n
 Afterlife is a compact\, nimble\, and sharply droll novel. Set in this p
 olitical moment of tribalism and distrust\, it asks: What do we owe those
  in crisis in our families\, including—maybe especially—members of ou
 r 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 soul
 s we have lost?\n\n\n
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