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What Comes After: A Novel (edición 2021)

por JoAnne Tompkins (Autor)

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"After the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a mysterious pregnant girl emerges out of the woods and into the lives of those same boys' families--a moving and hopeful novel about forgiveness and human connection. In misty, coastal Washington state, Isaac lives alone with his dog, grieving the recent death of his teenage son Daniel. Next door, Lorrie, a working single mother, struggles with a heinous act committed by her own teenage son. Separated by only a silvery stretch of trees, the two parents are emotionally stranded, isolated by their great losses--until an unfamiliar sixteen year-old girl shows up, bridges the gap, and changes everything. Evangeline's arrival at first feels like a blessing, but she is also clearly hiding something. When Isaac, who has retreated into his Quaker faith, isn't equipped to handle her alone, Lorrie forges her own relationship with the girl. Soon all three characters are forced to examine what really happened in their overlapping pasts, and what it all possibly means for a shared future. With a propulsive mystery at its core, Quickenings offers an unforgettable story of loss and anger, but also of kindness and hope, courage and forgiveness. It is a deeply moving account of strangers and friends not only helping each other forward after tragedy, but inspiring a new kind of family"--… (más)
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Título:What Comes After: A Novel
Autores:JoAnne Tompkins (Autor)
Información:Riverhead Books (2021), 429 pages
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Another Edgar nominee that explores the aftermath of the crime.

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The dog dies

That was tough. I was especially interested in the mentions of Quaker faith and practices, which I had very little knowledge of.
A very interesting and well plotted out book, amazing for a first time novelist ( )
  cspiwak | Mar 6, 2024 |
“Humans are forever picking their heroes and villains in waves of reversing fashion. Though at times—and this has happened not only with some pit bulls but with all manner of people and entire countries—we name our villains and then treat them in such a way that they prove us prophets.”

Isaac Balch, a high school teacher in the seaside town of Port Furlong, finds sixteen-year-old Evangeline McKensey alone and sheltering in the yard behind his home and takes her in. Evangeline, abandoned by her mother, is homeless having previously lived in a decrepit trailer with her mother and is pregnant and has had to resort to desperate means and measures to support herself. Isaac, a Quaker in faith, sees in her a lost young girl who needs help and out of the goodness of his heart decides to assist her in every way possible. Isaac whose wife left him a year ago is still reeling from the recent death of his teenage son Daniel who was recently murdered by Jonah, their friend and neighbor Lorrie’s son who was Daniel’s school friend and who later committed suicide. We also find out that Evangaline was no stranger to Jonah and Daniel – a fact that she initially keeps to herself. As the story progresses we get to know more about Isaac, Jonah and his mother and sister and the community they shared. We see how Isaac, Lorrie and her daughter Nells, Evangeline and Rufus (Daniel’s pet dog) deal with the aftermath of the horrific tragedy, accept the irrevocable changes in their lives and their relationships and learn to co-exist in the best way possible - learning to live with the guilt and pain of their shared loss and forging new bonds from forgiveness, compassion and acceptance.

What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins is an incredible debut novel that revolves around family, grief, guilt, acceptance, kindness, faith and forgiveness. The author touches upon issues such as child and sexual abuse, teenage pregnancy and suicide with the utmost sensitivity. The prose is elegant, the narrative is engaging and the characterizations are absolutely brilliant. The narrative is shared in chapters alternating between Isaac’s and Evangeline’s PoVs with a few chapters from Jonah's final days narrated in his voice. Isaac’s grief, reflections on what he perceives as his shortcomings as a parent, and his kindness towards Evangeline were beautifully written as was Evangeline’s story as she shares her distrust, confusion and the pain of adjusting to life with a child on the way while adjusting to a new town among strangers she whose kindness she is forced to accept. Jonah’s narrative was simply heartbreaking with his complicated friendship with Daniel, his dysfunctional family dynamics and his guilt over his crime that pushes him to take his own life. Each of these voices is distinct and congruent with the profile of the characters crafted by the author. However, I felt that Lorrie’s character should have been explored with more depth and though we get to know some details through Jonah’s narrative,the author could have given a voice to Lorrie and her struggles with her abusive late husband, Jonah’s crime and subsequent suicide, her guilt over her son’s actions and the ensuing strain in her friendship with Isaac. This is a complex and powerful story that will evoke strong emotions and though it might not be the easiest read, it is well worth the time invested.

“You can see the crimes that people commit, see them in their clear brutality, and yet someday, somehow, forgive. It might be the only way. How is forgiveness of what is not acknowledged forgiveness at all?” ( )
  srms.reads | Sep 4, 2023 |
The novel follows the journey of three characters-; Issac, quaker father of Daniel who has been murdered by his best friend Jonah and Evangeline, the girl that both Daniel and Jonah were involved with. The novel explores monsters, religion and forgiveness in seamless raw poetic imagery that never feels over-written. ( )
  GordonPrescottWiener | Aug 24, 2023 |
What Comes After is a novel both heartbreaking and filled with hope. Following a tragedy that leaves two families and a community devastated, a broken teenage girl emerges from the woods and into the lives of those who are grieving the unimaginable loss of their sons, Daniel and Jonah. Evangeline is a girl who has been abandoned by a mother who chose drugs and men over her. Evangeline has lived a near-feral life scavenging for food until she is evicted from her ramshackle home. Knowing both Daniel and Jonah, she heads toward Daniel's home seeking refuge where Daniel's father and his dog live. Knowing she is pregnant adds an urgency to her quest for food and shelter.

Issac is a devout Quaker, a man of few words and few expressed sentiments who wife left him prior to Daniel's death. His near neighbor is a single mother, who is left with a daughter, Nells, after Jonah's death. The neighbors' lives become entwined after Evangeline's arrival, and both suspect that one of their sons is the father of her baby. As the relationships grow, their profound grief is replaced with grace and understanding.

One of the most powerful moments in this book is the death of Issac's dog, Rufus, who has an uncanny understanding of the human heart. Ironically, his death corresponds with the onset of Evangeline's labor. This is a novel that I will remember for its depth of the ultimate love these people and this dog had for each other. ( )
  pdebolt | Jun 14, 2023 |
This book was just okay. I liked the idea of it, but I felt the outcome was a little bit of a cop-out. I wish the author had just picked one of the two boys to make the father of the baby and then there would have been a more in-depth story with the two parents dealing with the child of one of their dead sons'. Just my thought. Otherwise, it was okay. ( )
  LVStrongPuff | Nov 30, 2022 |
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"After the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a mysterious pregnant girl emerges out of the woods and into the lives of those same boys' families--a moving and hopeful novel about forgiveness and human connection. In misty, coastal Washington state, Isaac lives alone with his dog, grieving the recent death of his teenage son Daniel. Next door, Lorrie, a working single mother, struggles with a heinous act committed by her own teenage son. Separated by only a silvery stretch of trees, the two parents are emotionally stranded, isolated by their great losses--until an unfamiliar sixteen year-old girl shows up, bridges the gap, and changes everything. Evangeline's arrival at first feels like a blessing, but she is also clearly hiding something. When Isaac, who has retreated into his Quaker faith, isn't equipped to handle her alone, Lorrie forges her own relationship with the girl. Soon all three characters are forced to examine what really happened in their overlapping pasts, and what it all possibly means for a shared future. With a propulsive mystery at its core, Quickenings offers an unforgettable story of loss and anger, but also of kindness and hope, courage and forgiveness. It is a deeply moving account of strangers and friends not only helping each other forward after tragedy, but inspiring a new kind of family"--

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