After Life

Description

After Life
by Gayle Forman

ISBN: 9780063346147
Hardcover, new

Publication Date 1/7/25

Brief Description:
“After Life is a masterful tale about a family coping with loss, showing
the way grief affects us and people we don’t even know in ways we don’t
see. Once I met Amber and her family, I didn’t want to let them go.”
—Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of Carving Shadows
into Stone “Forman is a master at making her readers fall in love–with a
girl whose life is over, with a community of people in a small town who are
barely surviving her loss, and with the incredible, surprising way
everyone’s stories knit together into a heartbreaking and hopeful whole.”
–E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud One spring
afternoon after school, Amber arrives home on her bike. It’s just another
perfectly normal day. But when Amber’s mom sees her, she screams. Because
Amber died seven years ago, hit by a car while on the very same bicycle
she’s inexplicably riding now. This return doesn’t only impact Amber. Her
sister, Melissa, now seven years older, must be a new kind of sibling to
Amber. Amber’s estranged parents are battling over her. And the changes
ripple farther and farther out: Amber’s friends, boyfriend, and even people
she met only once have been deeply affected by her life and death. In the
midst of everyone’s turmoil, Amber is struggling with herself. What kind of
person was she? How and why was she given this second chance? This
magnificent tour de force by acclaimed author Gayle Forman brilliantly
explores the porous veil between life and death, examines the impact that
one person can have on the world, and celebrates life in all its beautiful
complexity.

Target Age Group: Ages 14 And Up, Grades 9 And Up