Love After Love

By Ingrid Persaud,

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“A stellar debut . . . about an unconventional family, fear, hatred, violence, chasing love, losing it and finding it again just when we need it most.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARD • “A wonder . . . [This book] teems with real, Trinidadian…

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1 author picked Love After Love as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is different. Part coming-of-age story, part murder “mystery”, wholly a unique love story, it thinks about sexuality, what we consider family to be, and above all, what integrity looks like. And it does this in a way that gives it a wide contemporary and inter-generational appeal. I love that Persaud sets you up, then questions your expectations: she disrupts ideas in and about the LGBTQ community, in feminism, about immigrants, in either-or discourse that says conservative and liberated can’t meet and two and two can’t make five. The language is irresistible (somebody said “addictive”. I think of wine).…

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