NYT Bestselling Author GAYLE FORMAN Event

Name: NYT Bestselling Author GAYLE FORMAN Event
Start: 2025-01-09T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Morgenstern Books

Schedule

Thu, 09 Jan, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Morgenstern Books | Bloomington, IN

Gayle Forman: New release 'After Life' at Morgenstern Books
Come join us for an unforgettable evening with acclaimed author Gayle Forman at Morgenstern Books! Get ready to dive into the world of her latest book, After Life, and hear firsthand about the inspiration behind this captivating story. This in-person event is your chance to meet the author, ask burning questions, and maybe even snag a signed copy of the book. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with one of your favorite writers! See you there!
“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
AFTER LIFE
By Gayle Forman
From New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman comes,
AFTER LIFE (On Sale January 7, 2025, Quill Tree Books), a
transcendent, moving story of a girl who returns to her life seven
years after her death. Directly in the vein of Forman’s blockbuster
hit If I Stay, this is a portrait of where love goes after death, and a
tribute to the power of memory.
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?
With incredible crossover appeal for teens and adults, this magnificent tour de force by
acclaimed author Gayle Forman brilliantly explores the porous veil between life and
death, the impact that one person can have on the world, and life in all its beautiful
complexity.
AFTER LIFE by Gayle Forman
---------ABOUT THE AUTHOR----------
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.
ADDITIONAL ADVANCE PRAISE
“After Life is a beautifully woven, extraordinary page-turner about a girl who has miraculously
come back to life. But is it actually a miracle? 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, author of They Both Die at the End
“Forman is a master at making her readers fall in love — with a girl whose life is over, with a
community of people in a small town who are barely surviving her loss, and with the incredible,
surprising way everyone's stories knit together into a heartbreaking and hopeful whole.”
— E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars
“I remember reading my first Gayle Forman book and how it felt like I was holding magic in my
hands. After Life is no different. An immersive, impossible to put down story about love, loss,
and most importantly, memory. A testament to the bond between sisters.
— Rachael Lippincott, author of Five Feet Apart
“After Life proves once again that Gayle Forman is a master of both high concept and character.
Full of grace and beauty, this book asks big questions about loss and grief, guilt and
forgiveness, without ever straying from its true center: the unbreakable bond of sibling love.”
— David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Mosquitoland
“A moving, kaleidoscopic page-turner about love and regret, forgiveness and healing. From
After Life's gripping first chapter, I couldn't put it down. Gayle Forman depicts the lives orbiting a
tragedy with generosity, humor, and great humanity.”
— Nina LaCour, Michael L. Printz-winning author of We Are Okay and Watch Over Me
“After Life is a masterful tale about a family coping with loss, showing the way grief affects us
and people we don't even know in ways we don't see. Once I met Amber and her family,
I didn't want to let them go.
— Brigid Kemmerer, author of Carving Shadows into Stone