![]() Herron’s suicide takes all of those normal activities and poisons them for many of the characters who, to one extent or another, become lost souls. The general reader, I suspect, will read In the Aftermath and find it easy to relate to its characters, people who are going through the normal everyday activities of shopping, dropping kids off at school, cooking, doing laundry, getting tasks done in the workplace, dealing with workplace colleagues who are more or less personable. So maybe I should offer my apologies here for raising some less than entertaining issues in this review. Ward’s general readers are likely to find In the Aftermath a worthy entertainment. ![]() My brother took his life nearly six years ago, and I’m still living with the aftermath of that act, for bad and for good. However, for anyone who has lost a relative or friend to suicide, this novel could be upsetting and stir up difficult memories. Last actįor the general reader, In the Aftermath is likely to be a poignant novel in which a wide array of people deal with many difficult-to-handle emotions in the aftermath of Herron’s last act. In all the hours after that, his family and friends have to live with what he has done. His tough-preaching banker father does know, and Herron also reaches out to him for help on his last day.Īnd, in his final hour, Herron feels alone and a failure. His brother-like best friend Charlie doesn’t know when, on that last day, Herron reaches out to him for help. He hasn’t told them how dire the financial situation is. Herron knows how bad things are, but not his wife nor his 12-year-old daughter. ![]() Herron’s desperation is brought about when he and his wife Jules open a fancy pastry bakery in a Boston suburb and then seek to expand, only to be caught in the recession of 2008, over-extended and vulnerable. ![]() This is a middle-class, even upper-middle class, story about ambition gone wrong, fear and secrecy, betrayal and failure. David Herron’s walk to death in the waves of the Atlantic Ocean sparks suffering in the lives of a dozen people and has grave consequences for one. Jane Ward’s In the Aftermath is an earnest, even affecting examination of the strong waves of guilt, sadness and anger among family and friends that follow the suicide of a loved one. ![]()
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