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A Shannon Ravenel Book
April 2013
On Sale: March 26, 2013
352 pages
ISBN: 1565122550
EAN: 9781565122550
Kindle: B00AFKIT3U
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Fiction Family Life
Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a
splendid journey through time and memory in this, her tenth
work of fiction. Life After Life is filled with a sense of
wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And
the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven
retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to
eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life’s most
profound discoveries and are some of the most true-to-life
characters that you are ever likely to meet in fiction. There’s retired third-grade teacher Sadie Randolph, who
has taught every child in town and believes we are all eight
years old in our hearts; Stanley Stone, a prominent lawyer,
now feigning dementia to escape life with his son; Marge
Walker, the town’s self-appointed conveyor of social status,
who keeps a scrapbook of every local murder and heinous
crime; Rachel Silverman, recently widowed, whose decision to
leave her Massachusetts home and settle at Pine Haven is a
puzzle to everyone but her; C.J., the pierced and tattooed
young mother who runs the beauty shop; and Joanna Lamb, the
hospice volunteer who discovers that her path to a good life
lies in helping people achieve good deaths. As each
character ?begins to connect with another, the mysteries and
consequences of their lives are revealed. What they
eventually learn about themselves and one another will
profoundly transform them all. Delivered with her trademark wit, Jill McCorkle’s
constantly surprising novel illuminates the possibilities of
second chances, hope, and rediscovering life right up to the
very end. With Life After Life, she has conjured up an
?entire community that reminds all of us that grace and
magic can—and do—appear when we least expect it.
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