Here After by Amy Lin

DESCRIPTION

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 is the last time she sees her husband alive.

What follows is a rich and unflinchingly honest account of her life with Kurtis and the vortex created by his death. 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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

AMY LIN is a writer and educator who lived in Calgary, Canada. Her work has been published in Ploughshares and she has been awarded residencies from Yaddo and Casa Comala. Here After is her first book.

PRAISE

"It has been years since I have been so rocked, so moved, by any book. What a great gift she has given us." — Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies

"Not since Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking has a book cracked open my heart the way Here After has." — Debbie Millman, author of Why Design Matters

"A steely, symphonic memoir of unexpected loss—and what (necessarily, unbearably) comes next." — Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

DETAILS

Hardcover | 257 pages