After Life

A Good Morning America Book Club YA Pick

"Gayle Forman has an uncanny ability to create characters in which we see ourselves, and her latest--which looks at where love goes, after a loss--is an honest, heartbreaking elegy to how memory makes relationships eternal." --Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"I was consumed by this thought-provoking, deftly written, multilayered novel. Gayle Forman reigns as the queen of breaking hearts with a touch of magic." --Adam Silvera, #1 New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die at the End

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.

Author: Gayle Forman
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Published: 01/07/2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.82w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780063346147

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.8
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 553657 / After Life


Review Citation(s):
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2024
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2024
Publishers Weekly 12/02/2024
Booklist 12/01/2024 pg. 125
School Library Journal 01/01/2025 pg. 62
Shelf Awareness 01/25/2025
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2025 pg. 69
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2025 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Forman, Gayle: -

Award-winning author and journalist Gayle Forman has written several bestselling novels for children and adults, including Not Nothing, the Just One series, and the number one New York Times bestseller If I Stay, which has been translated into more than forty languages and in 2014 was adapted into a major motion picture. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family.