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02648aim a22004215a 4500 001 5205EC42079911EB91AE0FFD35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201006010026 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 200710s2020 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 $a 1528898559 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9781528898553 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT13341498 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Alvarez, Julia, $e author. 245 10 $a Afterlife $h [electronic resource] / $c Julia Alvarez. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b W F Howes, $c 2020. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 25 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 $a Narrated by Alma Cuervo. 520 $a The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garc?a Girls Lost Their Accents 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. Afterlife is a compact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including--maybe especially--members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost? 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Authors $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Widows $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Grief $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Illegal aliens $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Responsibility $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Cuervo, Alma, $d 1951- $e narrator. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13341498?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/wfh_9781528898553_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20201104010306.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5205EC42079911EB91AE0FFD35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search