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American Masters

How Julia Alvarez conceived the story for her novel "Afterlife"

Season 38 Episode 5 | 1m 05s

Julia Alvarez released "Afterlife" in 2020, about a woman dealing with her husband's unexpected death and meeting an undocumented teenager. The book was dedicated to her oldest sister, Maury, who died in 2015, and was Alvarez's way of "[giving] voice to that landscape of aging."

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