After is not a date
For years, Clara Ellison believed she and Howard Vain had built one life together - a marriage shaped by work, family, illness, laughter, and a beautiful old station house by the river.
Then the details begin to move.
A trip changes dates. A conversation acquires a different meaning. Other people seem to know things Clara has never been told. And when Howard insists that his new relationship began only after their marriage was already over, Clara is left with one stubborn problem:
After is not a date.
Trained to trust facts, sequence, and evidence, Clara begins reconstructing the story of her own life - not to prove that Howard is a villain, but to understand when their shared future stopped being shared.
Then cancer returns.
Suddenly there are two kinds of uncertainty: the kind medicine can name and treat, and the kind love leaves behind.
With the help of her children, a fiercely loyal friend, and eventually Oliver - a neurologist whose humor and attention unsettle her in entirely new ways - Clara begins to discover that survival is not the same as returning to who she was before.
Sharp, intimate, unexpectedly funny, and emotionally precise, After Is Not a Date is a novel about betrayal, memory, illness, desire, and the difficult freedom of trusting your own perception again.
Sometimes the past never becomes completely clear. You can still choose what happens next.
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