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But every now and then, on the most average day, it occurs to you that this is it. We wait for the bad things that wake us up and shock our systems. Then a coworker who visits a rural NC nursing home that I used to work in gave me a copy and said, " These are our folks." So I was so disa We live days and weeks and months and years with so little awareness of life. This is all there is.” ― Jill McCorkle, Life After Life I had wanted to read this for some time as McCorkle is an author local to me. We live days and weeks and months and years with so little awareness of life. And, as she connects their lives through their present circumstances, their pasts, and, in some cases, through their deaths, she celebrates the blessings and wisdom of later life and infuses this remarkable novel with hope and laughter.more McCorkle puts her finger on the pulse of every character's strengths, weaknesses, and secrets. J., the pierced and tattooed young mother who runs the beauty shop, and Joanna, the hospice volunteer who discovers that her path to a good life lies with helping folks achieve good deaths, are two of the staff on whom the residents depend. Among them, third-grade teacher Sadie Randolph, who has taught every child in town and believes we are all eight years old in our hearts Stanley Stone, once Fulton's most prominent lawyer, now feigning dementia to escape life with his son Marge Walker, the town's self-appointed conveyor of social status who keeps a scrapbook of every local murder and heinous crime and Rachel Silverman, recently widowed, whose decision to leave her Massachusetts home and settle in Fulton is a mystery to everyone but her. Among them, third-grade teacher Sadie Randolph, who has taught every child in town and believes we are all eight years old in our Jill McCorkle's first novel in seventeen years is alive with the daily triumphs and challenges of the residents and staff of Pine Haven Estates, a retirement facility, which is now home to a good many of Fulton, North Carolina's older citizens. Jill McCorkle's first novel in seventeen years is alive with the daily triumphs and challenges of the residents and staff of Pine Haven Estates, a retirement facility, which is now home to a good many of Fulton, North Carolina's older citizens.