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INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Harrold, A. F.

The Afterwards

201 pp. | Bloomsbury | March, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-1-5476-0044-1 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-5476-0048-9
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Emily Gravett. Ember's wicked uncle leads her into a world where the dead dwell, but Ember sees this treachery as an opportunity to bring back her deceased best friend Ness. Harrold's spare text invites slow, considered reading, with occasional passages resembling poetry. Gravett's illustrations effectively use color within the shadowy and otherwise black-and-white afterworld. The author/illustrator pair invent imaginatively creepy magic to explore the difficulty, and necessity, of accepting loss.
Reviewer: Shoshana Flax | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2019

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