Afterlife : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1643750259
- ISBN: 9781643750255
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Physical Description:
256 pages ; 19 cm
print - 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 -- Dar 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. |
Summary, etc.: | 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 |
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Genre: | Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 52 of 53 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Silas Bronson Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 53 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | FIC ALVAREZ, J (Text) | 34005127243789 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |