num_pages: 416
description: Written by the author of "Continental Drift", this novel explores a small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident.
language: English
title: The Sweet Hereafter
titlecomplete: The Sweet Hereafter
characters: Billy Ansel (Sweet Hereafter), Dolores Driscoll, Nichole Smythe Burnell, Mitchell Stephens, Esquire
genres: 20th Century, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, School, Literature, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 9376
publisher: Vintage