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Bestselling author Julia Alvarez's recent adult novel, Afterlife, centers on immigrant writer Antonia Vega. She has just transitioned to retirement when her beloved husband 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. Set during these times of tribalism and distrust, this novel 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?