“Here After is a memoir about love, about grief, about what survives a sudden and terrible loss. Lin’s prose is precise, spare, elegant, and finely honed. In her hands we come to understand what grief extracts, what it demands, and what it means to be in the world after the death of a deeply loved spouse. Lin describes the myriad ways grief impacts us, how it lands in the body as physical and psychic pain, how the heart and lungs really do hurt, and how it collapses time — reshaping our relationship to the self and to the world. Here After is a beautiful testament to surviving as the one left behind.”—2024 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction jury (Annahid Dashtgard, Taylor Lambert and Christina Sharpe)