Life After Life (McCorkle) - Book Reviews

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McCorkle...look[s] at the regrets that haunt the end of a life. [The book's] saddest and most unlovable characters are her most compelling.… McCorkle [is] interested in capturing moments that ring true than in providing closure.
Publishers Weekly


It takes a skillful author to write a book about death that leaves the reader feeling uplifted, and McCorkle is such an author. [This] multilayered… excellent novel [is] unusual in its shifting construction. —Shaunna E. Hunter, Hampden-Sydney Coll. Lib., VA
Library Journal


Assisted living residents and a hospice worker confront the inevitable with grit and humor. A potentially cliched unifying device,… [any] predictability is dispelled by the jaw-dropping ending. McCorkle's masterful microcosm invokes profound sadness, harsh insight and guffaws, often on the same page.
Kirkus Reviews