01487cam a2200265 4500 1155077433 TxAuBib 20240226120000.0 231219s2024||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9780593861844 0593861841 TxAuBib Quindlen, Anna, 1953- After Annie [large print]. Random House Inc, 2024. 356 pages ; 24 cm. When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on Annie for support through addiction and recovery. Annie's daughter discovers disturbing truths about life in a small town, including at her new best friend's house, where she stumbles upon a dangerous secret. These and other characters reconfigure their lives and learn how to go on, after Annie. 20240226. Grief Fiction. Family Life Fiction. Small Cities Fiction. Opioid Abuse Fiction. Mothers Death Fiction. Domestic Fiction.