The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of "In the Time of the Butterflies" and "How the García 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...