Afterlife

Bestselling author Julia Alvarez delivers a luminous look inside the mind of a literature professor trying to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband.

Antonia 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 f...