Even when her basic story arcs can be simplified into romance, she's weaving other moral questions into the tapestry. And just when she sees a chance to free herself, new entanglements hold her back from following an exciting job prospect. Will has been gone for two years, but Lou can't move forward she's stuck in the turmoil of losing him and the understanding that she couldn't make him want to live. If Me Before You was about making devastating choices, then After You is about living through the emotional consequences of those choices. And that's before the abandoned teenager Lily shows up on her doorstep. When a freak accident has her family convinced she tried to kill herself, she ends up in a grief support group, and her social life begins to open up in unexpected ways. Lou blows the last of the money on an apartment, leaving her stuck in a dead-end bartending job. Will left her a significant amount of money, on the condition that she live an interesting life, but nothing that she's done since his death has left her feeling satisfied or able to fill the hole he's left. In After You, Lou is dealing with both the grief of losing Will and the guilt and occasional regret of helping him end his life. Lou falls for Will, and Will falls for Lou - but not hard enough to change his mind. Louisa (Lou) Clark gets a job as part caretaker, part companion to Will Traynor, a formerly vigorous and successful man who is confined to a wheelchair, unable to do nearly anything for himself. In that book, Moyes forced readers to look unflinchingly at a troubling subject: a quadriplegic man who wanted to end his own life. I admit, I was anxious to read After Yo u, Jojo Moyes' follow-up to Me Before You, the book that rolled quietly into blockbuster status three years ago. It's a tricky subject in real life, because no two people will ever deal with it in exactly the same way, and often we expect people to deal with their grief much differently than they actually do. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title After You Author Jojo Moyes

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