Life After Life: Library Edition

from TinaV95

Life After Life is not the novel I expected... Background: I've worked in the nursing home profession for nearly 20 years and have a good idea how things "really" work and how FUNNY residents really are. Plot in a Nutshell: You can find this on many other reviews, so here's my quick version -- Li...

from libsue

I have to admit being swayed by some of the negative or wishy washy reviews of Life After Life by McCorkle. I didn't expect much (especially after having read Life After Life by Atkinson and being truly disappointed), but I really liked this book. I thought the characters were interesting. Yes, a...

from LizzieD

Jill McCorkle doesn't write "great" literature, not even "very good" literature. In the ranks of the "good," however, Life After Life is excellent. It is set in Fulton, North Carolina, Jill's hometown and my own as filtered through the creative spark of the novelist. Specifically, it is set in Pi...

from morningwalker

Pine Haven Retirement Center is a nursing home in a small southern town and this is the story of a handful of the residents and the people associated with them. Each chapter focuses on a different character. The beginning is used to tell each character's story and the end is used to bring their s...

from readaholic12

Life After Life, by Jill McCorkle is one of those rare novels with characters and lives fully realized and stories so bittersweet that I remain haunted by them days after I finished reading the book. This is my first book by this author, and I am certain to seek out her earlier works to read next...