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HERE AFTER

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 depiction of love followed by dizzying loss. A stunning, taut memoir that will resonate deeply with anyone who has been in grief’s grasp.

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PRAISE

“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

“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 Maria Machado, author of In The Dream House

“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 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

“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

"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

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