""After Life is a masterful tale about a family coping with loss, showing the way grief affects us and people we don't even know in ways we don't see. Once I met Amber and her family, I didn't want to let them go."" -âBrigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of Carving Shadows into Stone
""Forman is a master at making her readers fall in loveâwith a girl whose life is over, with a community of people in a small town who are barely surviving her loss, and with the incredible, surprising way everyone's stories knit together into a heartbreaking and hopeful whole."" âE. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud
One spring afternoon after school, Amber arrives home on her bike. Itâs just another perfectly normal day. But when Amberâs mom sees her, she screams.
Because Amber died seven years ago, hit by a car while on the very same bicycle sheâs inexplicably riding now.
This return doesnât only impact Amber. Her sister, Melissa, now seven years older, must be a new kind of sibling to Amber. Amberâs estranged parents are battling over her. And the changes ripple farther and farther out: Amberâs friends, boyfriend, and even people she met only once have been deeply affected by her life and death. In the midst of everyoneâs turmoil, Amber is struggling with herself. What kind of person was she? How and why was she given this second chance?
This magnificent tour de force by acclaimed author Gayle Forman brilliantly explores the porous veil between life and death, examines the impact that one person can have on the world, and celebrates life in all its beautiful complexity.