Bad Sex in the Afterlife: A Novel

A manic exploration of death and the absurdity of life.

Jerry is stuck on the toilet 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 needs her only son to help find him.

In Deadville, Jerry finds himself in a chaotic bureaucratic afterlife packed with dead celebrities-from Be...