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Here After: A Memoir Hardcover – March 5, 2024
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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.
- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherZibby Books
- Publication dateMarch 5, 2024
- Dimensions4.25 x 1 x 7.25 inches
- ISBN-10195850632X
- ISBN-13978-1958506325
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“This book is a little wonder―a clear, utterly courageous act of love.”
―ELLE
“If you’ve ever known loss so cataclysmic that you want not stories of hope or survival, but ones that cry out in their brokenness―if you are looking for a place to meet your own pain or perhaps feel less alone with it―Here After might be the companion you need.”
―Esquire
“As the author navigates the wake of her inexplicable loss, readers will be both humbled by and grateful for the way she brings us into her world. A beautifully visceral and emotionally intimate depiction of young widowhood.”
―Kirkus Reviews(starred review)
“Lin’s memoir dazzles. Each chapter breathes with urgency…The tension between immediacy and memory lends the book an etherealness despite its raw, human vulnerability…written in poetic, fragmented chapters that convey how deeply people want to find words for what’s wordless, to discover meaning in the meaningless.”
―Library Journal (starred review)
“Told in short, poetic vignettes that stun in their depth, love, and pain. It's heartbreaking, beautiful, and above all, honest with . . . a small light of hope. Highly recommended.”
―Booklist (starred review)
"Lin's performance of her memoir, told in vignettes of meeting and losing Kurtis, is so staggeringly beautiful that it will break your heart . . . Lin teaches us, or reminds us, that sitting with someone in their sadness is far more helpful than a futile attempt to distract someone from their grief."
―Audiofile
"Amy Lin’s book is one of the best memoirs and books about grief that I’ve read."
―Susan Blumberg-Kason, Cha Journal
“It has been years since I have been so rocked, so moved, by any book, as I have been by Here After by the earthquaking new talent Amy Lin. Lin invites us into this place of exquisite pain and beauty; what a great gift she has given us.”
–Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies
"Amy Lin’s debut memoir is a testament to everything beautiful and heartbreaking and necessary in this world. With sheer precision and unflinching candor, she shares the depths of love and loss, hope and healing. Not since Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking has a book cracked open my heart the way Here After has."
―Debbie Millman, author of Why Design Matters and host of Design Matters
"Here After is stunning–in the sense of leaving me stunned. I've never read a book that so directly translated grief into language. It is beautiful, crushing, and amazing, and I read it in a single breathless sitting.”
―Catherine Newman, author of We All Want Impossible Things
“How gorgeously Here After tackles the twin specters of grief and survival; a steely, symphonic memoir of unexpected loss―and what (necessarily, unbearably) comes next.”
―Carmen Machado, author of In the Dream House
“Here After is a searing account of a young couple’s lost future and a writer’s descent into the soul-ravaging, shape-shifting wilderness of grief. Amy Lin writes with devastating clarity about the wounds that do not heal, the stories that remain forever fractured, and love’s enduring force. This is a profound and essential memoir.”
–Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel
"Here After is perfectly titled. Amy Lin's memoir of love and loss is heartbreaking and true. Having navigated my own path through grief, there was much I could identify with within these pages. Lin's writing is vivid, episodic, and unflinching―much like grief itself."
–Shannon Leone Fowler, author of Traveling With Ghosts
“Amy Lin knows her way around grief and its constant present tense. Grief is always with us; here are words to go with it, a writer who will accompany you on its long walk. This book made room for my tears and it will make room for yours if you let it.”
―Matthew Salesses, author of Craft in the Real World
About the Author
Amy Lin is a writer and educator who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. A recipient of residencies from Yaddo and Casa Comala, her work has been published in Ploughshares. Here After is her debut memoir.
Product details
- Publisher : Zibby Books; 1st edition (March 5, 2024)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 195850632X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1958506325
- Item Weight : 12 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.25 x 1 x 7.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #74,542 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #234 in Grief & Bereavement
- #262 in Love & Loss
- #2,502 in Memoirs (Books)
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Amy Lin is an author and writer living in Calgary, Canada. Her short fiction can be found in Ploughshares and she has been awarded residencies at Casa Comala and Yaddo. Here After is her first book.
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Loss leaves us blind afterwards to the basic familiarity of existence. There is a surrealness that makes explanations feel like a Dali painting. Despite thousands of years of human progress, grief remains an experience so misty that we have yet to build proper lighthouses for travelers there.
Which is what makes this book so luminous: from deep within its hazy recesses, Amy Lin has illuminated the landscape of loss.
This book casts a flashlight over the invisible sculpture of grief, outlines its bends and curves, its sharp points, so that others can say, ah, THERE, I see it now.
I read this book in one sitting. Afterwards I felt bandaged in places I hadn't known still bled.
If you are a widow feeling unseen, or a support person struggling to comprehend the experience, this book might be for you.
This book is about seeing things we all hope no one ever has to glimpse. Admitting they exist. Continuing anyway.
It is heartbreaking and beautiful and true.
Superbly written a great celebration of love despite enormous pain
Extremely touching
Rest In Peace Kurtis
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The prose is sparse- every word carefully chosen. The author gives us poignant vignettes of life through the years meeting her husband, dating, falling in love, his death , and learning how to live again in the after.
It is a brutally honest and intimate piece of storytelling.
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The prose is sparse- every word carefully chosen. The author gives us poignant vignettes of life through the years meeting her husband, dating, falling in love, his death , and learning how to live again in the after.
It is a brutally honest and intimate piece of storytelling.
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