The Tree of After Life
Description
From the author of the Nautilus Gold Medal-winning REMANENCE, J.S. Vaughn, The Tree of After Life was a Publishers Weekly BookLife Editor's Pick in 2022.
When Hyosun's estranged son Jason dies, she's left with more questions than grief: the estate money is gone, and so is Carrie — the fiancée Hyosun never accepted. What begins as a search for missing money becomes a reckoning with the life she missed.
Guided by a journal Carrie left behind — chronicling Jason's long recovery from a devastating car accident — Hyosun retraces the couple's life through Chicago, piecing together the son she never let herself know. With each step, the journey reveals as much about her own choices as his: the rigid traditions that drove them apart, the love she withheld, and the woman who gave Jason everything she couldn't.
Told in alternating voices — Hyosun's guarded restraint and Carrie's raw, hopeful journal entries — The Tree of After Life is a story of two women bound by the same loss, each desperate for the other to lean on, neither sure how to ask.
A heart-wrenching debut about love, regret, and the second chances grief sometimes offers.
