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Here After: A Memoir
Here After: A Memoir | Amy Lin
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Starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and Library JournalA SheReads and ELLE Most Anticipated Book of 2024 Here After is a poetic, raw depiction of an unlikely love followed by a dizzying loss. A stunning, taut memoir from debut Canadian author Amy Lin that will resonate deeply with anyone who has been in grief's grasp. "When he dies, I fall out of time." Amy Lin never expected to find a love like the one she shares with her husband, Kurtis, a gifted young architect who pulls her toward joy, adventure, and greater self-acceptance. On a sweltering August morning, only a few months shy of the newlyweds' move to Vancouver, thirty-two-year-old Kurtis heads out to run a half-marathon with Amy's family. It's the last time she sees her husband alive. What follows is a rich and unflinchingly honest portrayal of her life with Kurtis, the vortex created by his death, and the ongoing struggle Amy faces as she attempts to understand her own experience in the context of commonly held "truths" about what the grieving process looks like. Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a memoir so finely etched that its power will remain with you long after the final page.
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marleed
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I don‘t own this book but feel the need to purchase a copy because there are so many paragraphs I want to remember. It‘s an excellent account of grief of a young widow following the unexpected death of her husband.

BookNAround This is one of this year‘s Great Group Reads books so I read it a few months ago. Short and powerful for sure. 3mo
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Happy Pre-Fall Y‘All🌻🍁🤩 Everyone‘s invited to play!!

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Deblovestoread
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#AboutABook. #Memoir

A couple of memoirs on my BOTM TBR.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Both of these are GOOD! Here After got me in the heart bc I am a widow too 4mo
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Book 173 of the year.

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On to the next book!

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I lost my Mom on Dec 31 and these are so true!
We often recommended books we enjoyed to each other and there have been a few I have read lately that I think we would talk about. Miss you, Mom 🫶🏻

wanderinglynn I lost my dad 14 years ago. Sometimes it hits me hard. And sometimes I smile thinking of him. In my experience, it does stay with you forever but it‘s not always in the forefront of your mind. I also think grief isn‘t static. It isn‘t always a hard, sad, overwhelming emotion. Sometimes it‘s a laugh or a fond, soft smile. So I do think the exhaustion lessens because it becomes more familiar - if that makes sense. So sorry for your loss. 4mo
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“…I can not ever seem to stop the remembering. I can only keep it at a distance for a while…a shadow I can not get beyond…”

Loss and grief are universal. Author Amy Lin plumbs the depths of the physical, cognitive, and emotional wreckage of grief. Beautifully written.

#ReadAway2024
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kspenmoll Beautiful photo. The book sounds like a wonderful, thoughtful read. 4mo
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Amor4Libros
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Read this in 2 sittings. It was beautiful and sad. Very accurate depictions of grief.

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Ok, so Litsy app won‘t open and here‘s how the website on my phone wants to post the pic. However this book is positioned, it‘s a winner. A grief memoir that shows how all-encompassing grief will be, especially when you lose someone way too soon. I loved that it was written in vignettes and flew through it because of that. Emotional and searing.

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A beautiful and heart-wrenching memoir of loss. Amy Lin‘s young husband of only a couple of years unexpectedly dies a few months into the pandemic. What follows is a period of grief and loss and abandonment that is incredibly powerful to read. This is cry against a society that seems to want people to move on as quickly as possible.

merelybookish Great review! Sounds like a good but hard read. 9mo
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Mehso-so

Some aspects really resonated with me while others did not. I don‘t cry easily and really struggle to allow myself to feel emotions. Her depression and utter heartbreak is relatable, but I didn‘t see myself in this.

I listened to this as a audiobook, narrated by the author. The version I had from #BOTM had her reading out the numbers of each chapter and this bothered me because there‘s so many chapters and it took me out of the story a bit.