Afterlove: Tik Tok made me buy it!

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When I started reading this book I wasn’t completely sure I was going to like it because the story is about two sixteen year-olds experiencing their first love, which for me is an experience long in the past. However, I was completely wrong! This book by Tanya Byrne is written with absolute honesty and I saw myself immediately immersed in this story, devouring the book in barely a week, something that hadn’t happened in a long time. After Love is a very good book, well written, sympathetic, and insightful. It wears its sophisticated theory lightly, making it both accessible and rewarding to read as much as for the picture of contemporary Cuba it paints as for the more general insights it provides into how people negotiate the contradictions life throws at them.” — Mark Graham, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

The first part of the novel is about how Ash and Poppy get to know each other and fall in love. We learn about her best friend and her little sister and their lives as brown girls living in Brighton. In spite of what the synopsis says, I believe this book isn’t mostly about Ash becoming a reaper. For me this book is about how life and death are only some of the stops in a long journey. And most of all, love is what drives this book. This youthful drama will show you the streets of Brighton through Ash Persaud’s eyes, experiencing life, death and the first love with her. Also learning that death really happens the moment you stop remembering all the love you have in your life. Persaud’sauspicious debut traces the gut-wrenching lives of a makeshift Trinidadian family over the past two decades. . . . In chapters alternately narrated by Solo, Betty, and Chetan in vibrant Trinidadian dialect,Persaud expertly maps the trio’s emotional development and builds a complicated yet seamless plot full of indelible insights and poignant moments.This affecting family saga shines brightly.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Tanya has done an incredible job writing this beautiful, elegant and epic lesbian love story, and I genuinely think she is one of my new favourite authors. Stout's attention to experiences of abandonment, betrayal, and disillusionment adds to the growing scholarship on Cuban sexual identities under neoliberalism and raises important question about populations in Cuba's economies of desire who have reached the outer limits of affective exchanges." — Karina Lissette Cespedes, GLQDalton, Ben (3 November 2021). "UK-Ireland cinema release calendar: latest updates for 2021". Screen Daily . Retrieved 6 December 2021. Representation is important, especially with the lesbophobic culture of booktok/booktube often reading white cis mlm books but actively refusing to read wlw, too. AND, not all representation has to be the greatest book on earth to earn its spot ✨ on the grand high council of lgbt+ books. I would actively recommend this to readers perhaps a little younger (and less jaded). It’s good representation, has a diverse cast of characters and explores messages and culture in a mostly appropriate manner (despite the crass kiddie cancer thing). Love after Love is an absolutely engrossing exploration of love in all its forms, both beautiful and brutal. It is peopled with wonderful fully realized characters who live on your head and heart long after the book is closed. This is an amazingly good debut novel. We shouldn’t be surprised. Trinidadian Ingrid Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC Short Story Award in 2018. I’m sure Love after Love will be similarly successful.

All of a sudden, this quirky adorable romance becomes a rushed attempt at exploring our relationship with, well, life and it’s fragility. Here one minute, could be gone the next— all very They Both Die At The End but make it British Lesbians. But unaccustomed to the alcohol, Betty's tongue is loosened and when she confides in Chetan with her deepest, darkest secret, she is unaware that Solo (now almost an adult) has overheard. It sets in motion a train of events that will split up the family and take Solo to New York, to find refuge with his dad's younger brother, Uncle Hari.There seems to be a troubling trend in Caribbean literature being applauded only for employing certain stereotypes, when there is diversity in the Caribbean, based on speech and how people express themselves. Reading Persaud's account of Trinidadian society left me thinking that there is only one way to be, one way to speak and one way to live in that island. What a suffocating thought. Persaud will move this story to the harrowing streets of inner New York City and the consequences it will play on the lives of these characters. Each chapter is entitled with the name of the character and spoken from their own perspective. The language befits the dialogue of Trinidad and you'll soon feel its smoothness and lilt. It couldn't be told any other way. Love After Love touches on that very emotion that carries such a deeply embedded personal response in all of us. This is definitely one to keep your eye out for.