Afterlife LOWER GRADE where she took careful steps

where she took careful steps to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer and performer

electrifying examination of the restrictive expectations women are issued from birth

or a good reason to laugh-out-loud

Simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before

What really happened behind those closed asylum doors

Afterlife LOWER GRADE where she took careful stepsThe first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garca 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