Bad Sex in the Afterlife: A Novel

A manic exploration of death and the absurdity of life.

Jerry is minding his own business at 9 a.m., procrastinating on a low-rent freelance gig about the late Senator Lindsey Graham, when he finds himself face-to-face with an impossible visitor: his mother, who’s dead, and has been for quite some time. She claims his father is missing in the Afterlife—and she needs her only son to help find him.

In Deadville, Jerry finds himself in a chaotic bureaucratic afterlife packed with dead celebritie...