" 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." ---Brigid Kemmerer New York Times bestselling author of Carving
Shadows into Stone "Forman is a master at making her readers fall in love--with 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." --E. Lockhart author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud One spring afternoon
after school Amber arrives home on her bike. It's just another perfectly normal day. But when
Amber's mom sees her she screams. Because Amber died seven years ago hit by a car while on
the very same bicycle she's inexplicably riding now. This return doesn't only impact Amber. Her
sister Melissa now seven years older must be a new kind of sibling to Amber. Amber's
estranged parents are battling over her. And the changes ripple farther and farther out:
Amber's friends boyfriend and even people she met only once have been deeply affected by her
life and death. In the midst of everyone's 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.
