The Afterlives

Thomas Pierce

'Ridiculously good' (New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a brilliantly dazzling and poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff it turns out.)

Will we meet again? I believe we will but as for proof I can only offer my story nothing more.

Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Revived with no memory of any tunnels lights or angels Jim wonders what - if anything - awaits us on the other side.

Then a ghost shows up. Maybe. Jim and his new wife Annie find themselves tangling with holograms psychics messages from the beyond and a machine that connects the living and the dead. As Jim and Annie journey through history and fumble through faith they confront the spectre of loss that looms for anyone who dares to fall in love. Funny fiercely original and gracefully moving The Afterlives will haunt you. In a good way.

Praise for The Afterlives

'A bracingly intelligent beautifully rendered meditation on ghosts technology marriage and the afterlife. This is a remarkable novel' Emily St. John Mandel

'Inventive romantic and unsettling The Afterlives is a story of two people who take extraordinary measures to answer the Big Questions: What is the soul? Do we ever really die? Flabbergastingly original and sublimely satisfying' Amity Gaige

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