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After Annie
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Part of Quindlen's gift is that you don't just read about these characters, you inhabit them. . . . Luminous with life, hope and the power of love."--People (A Book of the Week Pick)
"[A] quietly revelatory and gently gleaming gem of a book."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
Anna Quindlen's trademark wisdom on family, friendship, and the ties that bind us are at the center of this novel about the power of love to transcend loss and triumph over adversity, by the author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs and One True Thing.
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the lynchpin of all their lives. Bill is overwhelmed without his beloved wife, and Annemarie wrestles with the bad habits her best friend had helped her overcome. And Ali, the eldest of Annie's children, has to grow up overnight, to care for her younger brothers and even her father and to puzzle out for herself many of the mysteries of adult life.
Over the course of the next year what saves them all is Annie, ever-present in their minds, loving but not sentimental, caring but nobody's fool, a voice in their heads that is funny and sharp and remarkably clear. The power she has given to those who loved her is the power to go on without her. The lesson they learn is that no one beloved is ever truly gone.
Written in Quindlen's emotionally resonant voice and with her deep and generous understanding of people, After Annie is about hope, and about the unexpected power of adversity to change us in profound and indelible ways.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780593229804
EAN:
9780593229804
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
304
Authors:
Anna Quindlen
Publisher:
Random House
Published Date: 2024-27-02
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After the sudden loss of a wife, mother and best friend everyone has to learn to survive without her. With the help of a school counselor they realize the depth of their love for her and each other.
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How do you describe a book that opens with the sudden death of a 38-year-old wife and mother? It's hard to read at times, like a sucker punch to the gut. You despair of the kids ever coming through intact. Mistakes are made, the grief is tangible, but throughout the book, you get glimmers of hope. It's worth the pain of the ride for the result--life does go on.
This book gives the reader a glimpse at how people grieve differently after the loss of a loved one and the complexity in relationships among family and friends during a time of grief.
I had heard this was a sad book and in places it was, but it was thoughtful and sometimes funny and so realistic.I like the way it was often said from different points of view and with love.
