Afterlove

Author: Tanya Byrne
Publisher:
ISBN: 1250895537
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this powerful, all-encompassing YA love story, a girl who becomes a grim reaper must figure out what the future holds—especially when it comes to the girlfriend she left behind. When Ashana Persaud meets Poppy Morgan on a school trip, she’s sure it’s too good to be true. Ash has never had much luck with girls, but Poppy proves different. Coffee dates turn to museum trips until, soon, the two girls can see a future together—one that’s seemingly snatched from them when a hit-and-run takes Ash’s life on New Year’s Eve. As the last person to die before midnight, Ash is bestowed the title of reaper, tasked with finding lost souls and helping them cross over. Only those close to death can perceive a reaper, so when Ash runs into Poppy one lonely night—and Poppy recognizes her—they can't be sure if it's the second chance they've so desperately wished for, or a tragedy lying in wait.

Love After Love

Author: Ingrid Persaud
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 0593157575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
“A stellar debut . . . about an unconventional family, fear, hatred, violence, chasing love, losing it and finding it again just when we need it most.”—The New York Times Book Review WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARD • “A wonder . . . [This book] teems with real, Trinidadian life.”—Claire Adam, award-winning author of Golden Child SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE • One of the Best Books of the Summer: Time • The Guardian • Goop • Women’s Day • LitHub After Betty Ramdin’s husband dies, she invites a colleague, Mr. Chetan, to move in with her and her son, Solo. Over time, the three become a family, loving each other deeply and depending upon one another. Then, one fateful night, Solo overhears Betty confiding in Mr. Chetan and learns a secret that plunges him into torment. Solo flees Trinidad for New York to carve out a lonely existence as an undocumented immigrant, and Mr. Chetan remains the singular thread holding mother and son together. But soon, Mr. Chetan’s own burdensome secret is revealed, with heartbreaking consequences. Love After Love interrogates love and family in all its myriad meanings and forms, asking how we might exchange an illusory love for one that is truly fulfilling. In vibrant, addictive Trinidadian prose, Love After Love questions who and how we love, the obligations of family, and the consequences of choices made in desperation. Praise for Love After Love “Love After Love is gift after gift. An unforgettable symphony of love and loss, heartache and guilt, and the secrets and lies that pull us together, and tear us apart. Dazzlingly told in the most electrifying prose you will read all year.”—Marlon James, Booker Prize–winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf “This book teems with real, Trinidadian life: neighbors so nosy they know your business before it happens; descriptions of food that'll have you googling recipes; feting and liming and plenty of sex. There's darkness here, too—violence, loneliness, moments of despair—and how Ingrid Persaud weaves all these elements together in one book, with so much warmth and humor and love for her characters, is a wonder.”—Claire Adam, award-winning author of Golden Child

Afterlove

Author: Robert J. Rosenblum
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780451207869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
The disappearance of a favorite--and lucky--earring turns Kate Weyland's comfortable life and fulfilling career upside down as tragedy threatens to destroy her world.

After Love

Author: Noelle M. Stout
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376598
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was dominating everyday discussions among gays, lesbians, and travestis. Largely eradicated after the Revolution, sex work, including same-sex prostitution, exploded in Havana when the island was opened to foreign tourism in the early 1990s. The booming sex trade led to unprecedented encounters between Cuban gays and lesbians, and straight male sex workers and foreign tourists. As many gay Cuban men in their thirties and forties abandoned relationships with other gay men in favor of intimacies with straight male sex workers, these bonds complicated ideas about "true love" for queer Cubans at large. From openly homophobic hustlers having sex with urban gays for room and board, to lesbians disparaging sex workers but initiating relationships with foreign men for money, to gay tourists espousing communist rhetoric while handing out Calvin Klein bikini briefs, the shifting economic terrain raised fundamental questions about the boundaries between labor and love in late-socialist Cuba.

After Love

Author: Subhash Jaireth
Publisher: Transit Lounge
ISBN: 1921924403
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
Vasu, a young Indian student of architecture, arrives in Moscow in the late 1960s. He falls in love with Anna, an archaeologist and an accomplished cellist, yet his romanticism about the Soviet Union clashes with her experience. He goes back to India to design a village for a co-operative of coffee farmers, but he cannot forget Anna and on his return they marry. Anna wants to leave Moscow but isn’t keen to go to India. They decide to go to Venice where Vasu has been offered a teaching position. In Italy their life unravels when Anna mysteriously disappears without a trace. Years later, Vasu discovers a painful but wonderful truth. A beautifully written story full of music and emotions that moves with ease across continents,After Love is destined to touch the hearts of readers everywhere

Leap of Faith

Author: Cameron Hamilton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982167130
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
"The fan-favorite couple from Netflix's Love Is Blind share their ups and downs after two years of marriage, love advice for the modern world, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the pods"--

The Book of Betsy

Author: Robert Hitt Neill
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1639035192
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Book Description
After a three-decade career of writing humorous, nostalgic books, stories, articles, and columns about the Great Outdoors, country living, hunting and fishing, raising kids, praising God, and enjoying life, Robert Hitt Neill turns to telling a real-life Love Story of his 55-year marriage to Betsy, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World." Once nominated for Southern Gentleman of the Year, Robert Hitt Neill, like any other Southern Gentleman, admits to having "Married Above Myself" to Betsy, a Beauty Queen at Ole Miss, a school renowned for the beauty of its Co-eds. "Betsy Hahpuh" survived being a Navy wife, becoming the Mistress of Brownspur Plantation during the times of bountiful harvests or drought and record-rain falls, raising three children with the Neill Brand as well as their friends, enduring being written-about by her prolific storyteller husband, then accompanying him to prison -- in the world's largest prison ministry! "The Book of Betsy: Forever 19," is an epic real-life Love Story of a couple upon whom God poured out many Joyous Blessings as they dealt with the many hardships and heartbreaks of life, ending with the tragic death of Betsy the week of their 55th Anniversary. But life doesn't end there, nor does this book. As Bob seeks to catch Covid, so as to join Betsy in Heaven, he has an unexpected lunch meeting with her Ole Miss sorority sister, roommate, and best friend, Cindy. There follows an "Epilogue: Can There Be Love After Love?" Here is a hint: "Yes!"

If I Never Went Home

Author: Ingrid Persaud
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992697709
Category : Interpersonal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
by Ingrid Persaud Sometimes the only way home is to leave the one you know. Written in two distinct, alternating voices, If I Never Went Home follows ten years in the turbulent lives of two narrators - thirty-something Bea, an immigrant in Boston, and ten-year-old Tina in Trinidad - as they separately navigate devastating losses, illness and betrayal in their quest to belong. Moving back and forth from the present to the past through flashbacks, this is the powerful story of how these women unearth family secrets that go beyond anything they could have imagined. Then unexpectedly their lives collide, and they are offered the chance to create a home. But can this gamble survive one last surprise about Tina's real identity?

Afterlove

Author: Mario Petrucci
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788640954
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When it comes to those we love, even our most yearned-for states of union are subject to change. afterlove endures the swarming devastations of loss as consummately as it enters love's raptures, ever alive to devotion's flow and ebb. From domestic paean centred on the beloved, through a father's unabashed affection for his children, to the sometimes savage realisations of love's dissolution, these poems succeed in spanning relationship heaven and hell. Mario Petrucci generates love (and non-love) poetry that refuses to squint in the glare of experience. With characteristic candour and inventiveness, whether through light-filled lyric or a murderous remaking of myth, Petrucci takes us just about everywhere love can go. afterlove is a collection marked by emotional openness and imaginative risk. These poems of family connection and disconnection are probing, and those featuring the poet's relationship to his children are particularly striking in their tenderness and honesty. Moniza Alvi

Chasing After Love

Author: Kerri Keberly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737285922
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
She's tired of being a tree. Even living as an evergreen, Daphne can't shake Apollo, the god cursed to relentlessly pursue her. Determined to ditch him once and for all, she returns to her nymph form and makes a break for it, hiding in the last place on Earth she thinks he'll look. But when she ends up in humble sheriff's deputy Sam Carson's kitchen, she discovers she might actually want to stop running for good. There's only one problem. Apollo will crush anyone who gets in his way. Literally.Apollo's got a big head. And it only gets bigger when he enlists his trusty assistant and muse, Calliope, to help him find Daphne before his reputation as revered victor is trashed. Hades-bent on finally getting what he's been chasing after for centuries, he almost misses out on what's been right under his nose the whole time. True love.Can the god of every damn thing learn a little humility before it's too late? Or will all of Olympus finally know the truth: Their ultimate winner is really a giant loser. Like mythology? You'll love this modern-day twist on the centuries-old myth of Daphne and Apollo.