Beforelife, Randal Graham
Beforelife, Randal Graham
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Beforelife

Author: Randal Graham

Narrator: Ash Rizi

Unabridged: 16 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 07/27/2018


Synopsis

It’s okay if you don’t believe in the afterlife. The people who live there don’t believe in you, either.What if you went to heaven and no one there believed in Earth? This is the question at the heart of Beforelife, a satirical novel that follows the post-mortem adventures of widower Ian Brown, a man who dies on the book’s first page and finds himself in an afterlife where no one else believes in “pre-incarnation.” The other residents of the afterlife have mysteriously forgotten their pre-mortem lives and think that anyone who remembers a mortal life is suffering from a mental disorder called the “Beforelife Delusion.”None of that really matters to Ian. All he wants to do is reunite with Penelope, his wife. Scouring the afterlife for any sign of her, Ian accidentally winds up on a quest to prove that the beforelife is real. This puts him squarely into the crosshairs of some of history’s greatest heroes and villains, all of whom seem unhealthily obsessed with erasing Ian’s memories and preventing him from reminding anyone of their pre-mortem lives. Only by staying a step ahead of his enemies can Ian hope to keep his much-needed marbles, find Penelope, and restore the public’s memories of the beforelife.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Randal

My mom says it's good ;)......more

Goodreads review by Krista

Up-to-the-minute polling reveals that 86 per cent of readers who've reached this point in the narrative happily accept that Ian died when struck by a train, that he awoke in an afterlife that failed to correspond to popular expectations, and that he spent an unspecified period of time in a nether......more

Goodreads review by Barbara

3.5 stars - I liked the premise (see the blurb) and I think the book delivered on it. I enjoyed the story through to the ending and thought it did a good job of incorporating the speculative fiction aspects, satire, politics, and philosophy. That sounds like a lot for a book to incorporate but it is......more