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  • Here After

  • A Memoir
  • By: Amy Lin
  • Narrated by: Amy Lin
  • Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)

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Here After

By: Amy Lin
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Starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and Library Journal

A March Book of the Month Selection

An Apple Books Best Book of March

A SheReads and ELLE Most Anticipated Book of 2024

Here After is a poetic, raw depiction of an unlikely love followed by a dizzying loss. A stunning, taut memoir from debut Canadian author Amy Lin that will resonate deeply with anyone who has been in grief’s grasp.

“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’s the last time she sees her husband alive.

What follows is a rich and unflinchingly honest portrayal of her life with Kurtis, the vortex created by his death, and the ongoing struggle Amy faces as she attempts to understand her own experience in the context of commonly held “truths” about what the grieving process looks like.

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 word.

©2024 Zibby Media LLC (P)2024 Amy Lin
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Love is longer than time — Amy Lin shares her story ✨

For the times when we don’t always know how to remember, this book is for you. It’s about the willingness to learn the names of one’s pains & how can anyone be gone when they’re very much a part of your present. Fall for Amy Lin’s Kurtis & his capacity to love as he decisively tells her: “You weren’t a choice. It was always you.” A lyrical marvel that will hold your heart tenderly, please let it.

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Recommended by a widower

Recommended by a widower, my wife died sixteen months ago. Worth reading. I relate a lot.

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Beautiful book about pain and loss and grief and emotions. It makes your heart ache, but with the good memories too.

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Powerful

Written in short snippets, detailing how Amy and Kurtis met and her life after he died, grief is laid out for everyone to see. Having dealt with grief in a different way, I resonated with some of the things the author went through. This book was powerful and grief should be talked about more often in all its forms. Everyone should read this book.

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The prose is beautiful!!

This book is so beautifully written; like poetry. I too lost my husband, the love of my life, my heart on 8/19/2023 so this book was both gut-wrenching and healing. This book will stay with me forever. Thank you Amy for sharing your heart, soul and tears as balm to others’ wounds.

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