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"Gorgeous and perceptive, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's homeland--told in the voices of four distinct narrators. Twenty years after the death of her infant daughter, Rosy still feels--acutely--all that she's lost. But she's determined to try to lay her grief to rest, desperate to repair the connections to the family she does have: her husband, Desmond, and...
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Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but Sam died, and getting rid of his things, trying to erase him from her life is not working, so desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls his cellphone expecting to hear his voicemail--but then Sam answers, and suddenly their cellphones become the living connection between them, a connection Julie finds impossible to let go.
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