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The Afterlife of Mal Caldera by Nadi Reed Perez
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The Afterlife of Mal Caldera

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Narrator EJ Lavery

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Length 12 hours 23 minutes
Language English
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Mal's life is over. Her afterlife is only just beginning…

By turns irreverently funny and deeply moving, this debut contemporary fantasy is perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

Mal Caldera—former rockstar, retired wild-child and excommunicated black sheep of her Catholic family—is dead. Not that she cares. She only feels bad that her younger sister, Cris, has been left to pick up the pieces Mal left behind. While her fellow ghosts party their afterlives away at an abandoned mansion they call the Haunt, Mal is determined to make contact with Cris from beyond the grave.

She enlists the help of a reluctant local medium, Ren, and together, they concoct a plan to pass on a message to Cris. But the more time they spend together, the more they begin to wonder what might have been if they'd met before Mal died.

Mal knows it’s wrong to hold on so tightly to her old life. Bad things happen to ghosts who interfere with the living, and Mal can't help wondering if she’s hurting the people she loves by hanging around, haunting their lives. But Mal has always been selfish, and letting go might just be the hardest thing she's ever had to do.

Nadi Reed Perez was a 2020 Pitch Wars mentee and writes for The Call of the Flame, a high fantasy audio drama. They live near Denver with their two cats and a few probable ghosts.

EJ Lavery is an audiobook narrator who records titles in a broad range of genres, including thriller, romcom, and middle-grade fiction. A former disc jockey for a mid-Michigan Top 40 radio station, her fifteen-year career in theater has given her the opportunity to inhabit many lives. She has also sung at several prestigious venues, including The Kennedy Center, Disney World, Carnegie Hall, and the Vienna Music Hall.

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Reviews

"EJ Lavery brings to life or, rather, death this danse macabre of a tale. Lavery gives Mal a somber yet confident voice. She also provides some fun voices for the large cast of ghosts, who include a hippie, a flapper, and a British aristocrat." - Audiofile Magazine Expand reviews
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