Here After
A Memoir
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
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
An Esquire Best Memoir 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 page.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A woman grapples with life-changing love, paralyzing grief, and her own mortality in this deeply powerful memoir. Thirtysomething Amy Lin felt that she’d found real happiness until the fateful day her husband left the house to run a half-marathon and tragically died. The sudden loss instantly burdened Amy with a debilitating grief that almost felt too heavy to carry—and that’s when she learned she had a potentially life-threatening medical condition. Lin tells her story with a poetic sensibility and unblinking honesty, and she doesn’t spare us from feeling the full intensity of her anguish. We were stunned by just how easy it was to step into her world and feel her pain and confusion. But Lin doesn’t ignore the moments of joy that punctuate this difficult odyssey either. Anyone who’s lost someone close to them will relate to this meditation on the human condition.
