After Evelyn

Evelyn Hargrave dies quietly at home at eighty-three. She is not ready to leave.

Not because she has unfinished business in the gothic sense. Not out of malice. But because she cannot quite believe the people she loved are already rewriting her — and because, watching from the liminal space between gone and not quite gone, she is finally beginning to understand what she got wrong.

After Evelyn is a first-person novel narrated by Evelyn herself: sharp, sardonic, occasionally furious, and capab...