Algonquin

9781643751368

STARRED REVIEW

Afterlife

In one moving scene after another, Julia Alvarez dramatizes the sustaining power of stories.

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Review of ‘Afterlife’

The first months of the 2020s have brought us excellent books by Latino authors. One is Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s memoir, Children of the Land. Another is Afterlife, Julia Alvarez’s first novel for adults in over a decade. It couldn’t be more timely, a moving portrait of a retired English professor and novelist dealing with…

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