The AfterpainsBy: Anna Julia Stainsby LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARDS Powerful and unrelenting prose. I loved this book. Reema Patel, author of Such Big Dreams Gorgeous and compelling, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's homelandtold in the voices of four distinct narrators. Nearly twenty years after the death of her infant daughter, Rosy is still reeling from all that