Afterlife (精裝本)

The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents“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 XAntonia 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 th