Giveaway Monday: Life After Life
For her first novel in seventeen years, Jill McCorkle has created a cast of unforgettable characters who face life and death with humor while staying “firmly tethered to Earth and reality,” as Jill told Melissa Block in All Things Considered interview on NPR. In celebration of the book’s pub date tomorrow, we’re giving away one copy of…
Life After Life
by Jill McCorkle
The residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life’s most profound discoveries and are some of the most true-to-life characters that you are ever likely to meet in fiction.
There’s retired third-grade teacher Sadie Randolph, who has taught every child in town and believes we are all eight years old in our hearts; Stanley Stone, a prominent lawyer, now feigning dementia to escape life with his son; Marge Walker, the town’s self-appointed conveyor of social status, who keeps a scrapbook of every local murder and heinous crime; Rachel Silverman, recently widowed, whose decision to leave her Massachusetts home and settle at Pine Haven is a puzzle to everyone but her; C.J., the pierced and tattooed young mother who runs the beauty shop; and Joanna Lamb, the hospice volunteer who discovers that her path to a good life lies in helping people achieve good deaths.
As each character begins to connect with another, the mysteries and consequences of their lives are revealed. What they eventually learn about themselves and one another will profoundly transform them all.
Delivered with her trademark wit, Jill McCorkle’s constantly surprising novel illuminates the possibilities of second chances, hope, and rediscovering life right up to the very end. With Life After Life, she has conjured up an entire community that reminds all of us that grace and magic can—and do—appear when we least expect it.
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I love Jill McCorkle!
I love Jill McCorkle, too, and this sounds like a lovely read! Thanks for the review.
Thanks for your give-a-way! Sounds like a great read! 🙂
As I’m reading this, I’m thinking about what I’d like to see in life after I leave this life. I know I’d like to see: more children and adults interacting with each other, more books, more kindness, and more cookies. There always needs to be more cookies.
Thank you for the opportunity to possibly read this gem.
THANKS for the giveaway.
Can’t wait to read the new one!
I have not read any of McCorkle’s previous books but this seems like a great place to start.
I have not read any of McCorkle’s previous books but this seems like a great place to start.