Afterward

Name: Afterward
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Jennifer Mathieu
ISBN: 9781501926631

Author: Jennifer Mathieu

Narrator: Jeffrey Brick, Nina Alvamar

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/20/2016

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

A tragic kidnapping leads to an unlikely friendship in this novel about finding light in the midst of darkness. When Caroline's little brother is kidnapped, his subsequent rescue leads to the discovery of Ethan, a teenager who has been living with the kidnapper since he was a young child himself. In the aftermath, Caroline can't help but wonder what Ethan knows about everything that happened to her brother, who is not readjusting well to life at home. And although Ethan is desperate for a friend, he can't see Caroline without experiencing a resurgence of traumatic memories. But after the media circus surrounding the kidnappings departs from their small Texas town, both Caroline and Ethan find that they need a friend--and their best option just might be each other.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carole

This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books. This is a really tough book for me to rate and review. Before I started listening to this audiobook, I had no idea that the story would so closely follow a kidnapping situation that happened in my hometown. At first, I thought it was a c......more

Goodreads review by TJ

Received from: Macmillan Children's Publishing Group Received Via: NetGalley.com THE REVIEW Why this book? It seemed interesting What I thought This book is about healing after Ethan and Dylan are Kidnapped and found and how their families deal with the situation. This was a beautiful written story. Thi......more

Goodreads review by Drew

Jennifer Mathieu hasn't written a bad book yet. I loved her shocking contemporary debut, The Truth About Alice, and Devoted, following a girl in an oppressive religious community. I'll admit Afterward wasn't as good as her first two books, but it was still a solid contemporary, especially for being......more

Goodreads review by Amina

✰ 3 stars ✰ “You survived war, Ethan,” Dr. Greenberg tells me, his voice quiet. “You survived the unimaginable. Which makes you a pretty incredible person in my eyes.” Reading books that deal with sensitive subjects like child kidnapping is always difficult. We hear harrowing stories like this i......more