Book Snails Book Group discussion

Our November group poll winner is Afterlife, a contemporary fiction novel from internationally best-selling author Julia Alvarez:



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 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 the world demands more of her than words....

Please comment below if you are reading this book, or have questions for your Book Snail friends. Happy reading!

I read this and loved it! the narration is fantastic too, if anyone here prefers audiobooks.

Thanks, Hannah. I always appreciate when someone lets us know an audiobook version is especially good.

eBook & audiobook available from Overdrive.com / Libby app (if your library participates):
https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=ju...