“…a wonderfully bizarre whodunit and a tender bildungsroman
that seeks to understand why first kisses always taste of gasoline.”
- Salvador Plascencia, author of The People of Paper
Better Ways of Being Dead is a mystery (more pleasedoit than whodunit), an A paper, an F paper, several very bad sonnets, a batch of ridiculous encyclopedia entries, and a lengthy monologue that takes place entirely during a game of hands on a hard body. Required reading for all students of Advanced Recomposition.
“In this mind-warping, time-looping, wonderfully smart novel, there are “pants involved, and no pants, and stiletto heels and fortune cookies and the devil herself, indirectly.” Throw in a polar bear suit, a creepy professor or two, suicide that doesn’t stick, an intrepid narrator who is not afraid to drive an old stolen hearse through deep snow, and you’ve got the makings of something, well, unusual (and thank God)! Which is another way of saying, wow, I’m really, really glad I read this. You will be too.” - Laird Hunt, author of The Impossibly and The Exquisite
Published by Afterbirth Books.
May 2007