Afterlife LOWER GRADE or a good reason to

or a good reason to laugh-out-loud

had poor vision

electrifying examination of the restrictive expectations women are issued from birth

But then Jackson gets Tablet and Pencil finds himself dumped in the dreaded junk drawer

Magdalys and the squad are flying south on pteroback

Afterlife LOWER GRADE or a good reason toThe first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garca 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